The 'Gimli Glider'. One pound = 0.454 kilograms.
Posted on 07/19/2017 10:58:57 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian
This article was published by The Weather Network, a Canadian weather company, not the Weather Channel in Atlanta.
One is an American cable channel and one is Canadian.
I have a friend from the Army days of the sixties living in Havasu City. Curious as the temperatures discussed are quite similar to the temperatures he writes about there, and often sends photographs of his wall thermometer. It’s always quite into the high one hundred-twenties there in the Summertime.
This lack of societal trust is what the Global Warmalcolding liars have done to us.
New York City! If you listen to the local radio news anyway. You’d think a couple 90deg days was the end of the world.
They’re a provincial lot up there, the world ends at the Hudson River for them.
Dear Formerly canuck,
I was already a student in the American school system, pre-Jimmah Cahtuh Dept of Educ, when the pointy heads running the school decided that we needed to be exposed (no, it was NOT mandantory), to the left-handed metric system.
The English system that has been part of the American education system, since the first school was built in the American ‘colonies’, has always been the premier measurement system.
The metric system was devised, IMHO, by the group of European losers and conquered nations, so that they feel special, and as a competing system on the world market.
For example, I often convert the temperature to to °F from °C to understand how hot or cold it is. Fuel economy is measured in 'litres per 100 kms', which I have to convert to miles per gallon.
When they introduced it in 1970 or so, they taught it in school without converting to Imperial units. That might have worked in kindergarten, but in Grade 5, I had a grasp of the Imperial system, so I needed to convert everything to get a sense of what the measurements were.
'Give the metrificationists 2.54cm and they'll take 1.609kms.' 😋
For example, I often convert the temperature to to °F from °C to understand how hot or cold it is. Fuel economy is measured in 'litres per 100 kms', which I have to convert to miles per gallon.
When they introduced it in 1970 or so, they taught it in school without converting to Imperial units. That might have worked in kindergarten, but in Grade 5, I had a grasp of the Imperial system, so I needed to convert everything to get a sense of what the measurements were.
'Give the metrificationists 2.54cm and they'll take 1.609kms.' 😋
“’Give the metrificationists 2.54cm and they’ll take 1.609kms.”
I REALLY love that———and know nothing about the metric system. :-)
Yuma Az...The average July high temperature can hit a scorching 107° F, making it one of the hottest cities in the United States behind Phoenix. In 1995, Yuma reached its all-time high at 124 F. The high temperature isn’t the only stand-out trait of Yuma. I was there in La Paz Prison Yard. There were no drinking fountains on the Yard...he he
Dear formerly,
re: metric system.
The year: 1993 The place: Grumman Aerospace Corp., Long Island, NY.
Mission: Transferring all aerospace manufacturing specs from the tried-and-true-winning-WW2-American-specs to “EU bassardized I.S.O. requirements” as per M.O.U. between U.S. gov’t and E.U./NATO standardization.
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