Posted by Larry Hoover on March 6, 2007, at 10:33:50
In reply to Re: my last winter whine...I promise, but....., posted by Meri-Tuuli on March 6, 2007, at 10:05:43
> > Yes. I was trying to be cheeky with the Celcius/Fahrenheit temps. AFAIK, the U.S. is the only place still using Fahrenheit, and other non-metric scalars.
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> Actually, in the UK they still have all the road signs in miles, can you believe it? We're supposed to be all metric and what with the EU and everything, we really should get round to switching them to km. I mean, even Ireland was road signs in km!!! Its bizarre. Everything else is totally metric, but no, road signs, still miles.That's bizarre! Surely speedometers and odometers are in kilometres?
BTW, we almost hit the intersection of the two temp scales last night. -40 is -40 in both languages.
I just went to get the mail, and my nose hurt to breathe through. Mouth breathing hurt my lungs, though, and they still hurt. A week from now, the forecast is for +13 (55 F.). It's really hard on the body to do these shifts in temp.
> > Thanks, of course, to all that American heat exported via the Gulf Stream.
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> But is it not part Mexican too? Maybe even Caribbean?I meant America in the geographical sense, the Americas. I keep forgetting that my neighbours to the south have appropriated the term for themselves. I'll try to keep my mouth shut about the World Series of baseball.....
> I imagine these little Mexican air/water molecules bobbing along, all trying to migrate to Europe. 'Hula l'europa!' Well, whatever, I am rather grateful we have it. Lets hope it doesn't shut down anytime soon....
One theory is that desalination of Arctic water due to icemelt could shut it down, leading to a new Ice Age. I know, theories abound, but if this one is correct, there is no transition period. It's a binary system.
> > You know, North American weather is really the most extreme on Earth.
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> Yes it does seem very volatile, what with ice storms and tornados and things like that.
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> MeriYes. The temperature ranges, and the frequencies of extreme weather events, are unlike anywhere else.
Lar
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