"for about 6 hours from about 7:00 last night" I would have thought 19:00h would have been the better time measurement for that.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:42669] Re: Hot and dry Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:17:27 +1100 Dear Jerry, You might like to reflect on that for a little longer. Consider this statement from 'the Age' newspaper this morning: The hottest recorded temperature in Victoria was 45.8 degrees at Avalon airport, near Geelong, at 5pm on Thursday. This is from http://www.theage.com.au/national/as-train-tracks-melted-and-trees-wilted-we-all-went-a-little-bit-troppo-20090130-7u1c.html?page=1 and there is further evidence at http://www.theage.com.au/national/fire-rages-through-6000-hectares-towards-transmission-lines-20090131-7u7f.html In Geelong, we lost all electrical supplies, due to a heat-related circuit fault, for about 6 hours from about 7:00 last night. No radio, no television, and (wait for it) no air conditioning. The train tracks buckled and many train services simply ceased, thousands of commuters who go from Geelong to Melbourne each day were stranded in Melbourne. Many houses were lost in wild fires known here as 'bush fires' However, look on the bright side. All of the reports in the media, print, radio, and television use metric units only in their broadcasts. It is quite rare for anyone to try to dumb the initial reports down 'for the public'. It seems that the Australian public is now quite used to weather reports in metric units. Cheers, Pat NaughtinGeelong, Australia On 2009/01/31, at 3:27 PM, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:Pat, That right, rub it in! It is bad enough we have freezing cold of -10~-20 C, but the unplowed roads and the meter plus mountains of snow are enough to drive one to the happy farm. I have 50 cm of snow in my yard with piles to 1.6 m. Care to trade? You could be kind and ship some of that heat towards North America. Jerry. From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 5:49:43 PM Subject: [USMA:42609] Hot and dry Dear All, As you enjoy your nice crisp cool winter days, spare a thought for we folk in the southern hemisphere. In the next few days we expect the following temperatures: Tuesday 38 °CWednesday 41 °CThursday 40 °CFriday 40 °CSaturday 40 °CSunday 30 °C See the article http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-faces-worst-hot-spell-in-100-years-20090126-7q0c.html for the details. Melbourne is the nearest big city to Geelong. Melbourne is 70 kilometres north-east of Geelong. You might recall the rhyme: Zero is freezing,10 is not,20 is pleasing,30 is hot,40 frying,50 dying.I don't know who wrote the first three lines but I added the last two to consider Australian conditions. We live near the coast of the Southern Ocean but 200 kilometres inland from us you can expect the predicted temperatures to be about 3 °C hotter than here. Swan Hill, for example, will reach 44 °C on Wednesday and 43 °C on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.. It's amusing to see chatter in northern hemisphere media reports about 'global cooling'. You won't get much empathy for that position here in Australia as we are about to experience our second driest January in 159 years that is being topped off with this current heat wave. So far this month Geelong has had 0.4 millimetres of rain compared to a long term average of 35.6 millimetres for January. Cheers, Pat NaughtinPO Box 305 Belmont 3216,Geelong, AustraliaPhone: 61 3 5241 2008Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. Cheers, Pat NaughtinPO Box 305 Belmont 3216,Geelong, AustraliaPhone: 61 3 5241 2008Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. _________________________________________________________________ Twice the fun—Share photos while you chat with Windows Live Messenger. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/windowslive/products/messenger.aspx
