Excellent suggestion, Gene! Has anyone heard yet about telecasts of the
games? Which network will be carrying them?
The local station called KSL will is the "official television and radio station for the 2002 winter olympics." NBC is the national broadcaster that will carry the Olympics. For KSL:
Web site: www.ksl.com, or www.2002.ksl.com
Email for the weather guy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some of us have already written letter encouraging them to report weather in metric. I got a response to the effect of "good idea, we'll think about it." My letter is below.
Jim Elwell
(sent on 4 August 2001)
Sir/Madam:
When the 2002 Olympic come to Salt Lake City in a few months, there will be tens of thousands of people from other countries visiting here.
Since the US is the ONLY country left in world that uses non-metric units, very few of those tens of thousands will have any idea what "40 degrees Fahrenheit" is, or what "inches of snow" means, or whether "10 mph wind speed" is fast or slow.
Please consider putting metric equivalents into your forecasts (TV, web, radio), as a courtesy to these thousands of visitors. It will be a tremendous help to them, and it will help our citizens become more familiar with the measurement language the rest of the world uses, and which the US will eventually use.
Thank you.
Jim Elwell
President
QSI Corporation
SLC, Utah
