JGalanos Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21132375/ Bad news ... Unless you're in OFF's neck of da woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 !@#%&!!!!! I'm moving to Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kappa Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 I'll believe it when I see it. MN has been getting warmer and the winters are absolutely nothing like they used to be but things 'always' have had a way of letting us know where we live here in the winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Fox Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Joe, it is 29 here today and going to 30 tomorrow. I don't know what that is on the Farenheit scale, but I do know that it is damned hot. Around 91 or 92 I think. W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kappa Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 That would be 84F and tomorrow's temp of 86F.. Thank to the years in Japan.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Fox Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 For awhile after you convert, you kind of work back and forth, but you very soon lose that in many of the areas that metric affects. It really is wonderful. I can't understand why US has not switched. The reason we switched is that it was just costing many of the companies so much money to use the old system. They were thus having trouble to compete with the Europeans that way. Now that we have switched the factories are much more competitive. And for instance. In degrees C. 0 is freezing. minus ten is quite cold and minus twenty is getting damned cold. Minus 40 is the same on both scales. Plus 10 is nice weather with a jacket on. 20 is short sleeves weather and just about ready for shorts or many people might be wearing them. 30 is getting quite hot. 35 is getting close to being unbearable if there is a lot of humidity as there is where I live. In most cases even the old guys now love the new system. It just makes so much more sense. W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKcoyote Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 I agree regarding the simplicity of the metric system. In my opinion, the problem in the US is political stupidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 AK, that's another reason I made the comment...but... Is it just supposed to be a warm year in general, or is this indicative of...[...] ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet_Tigress Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 MN *is* getting warmer. That's why Duluth is so nice. You never can tell what the Lake is going to do. It might be 80 degrees on the hill, and 40 next to the like. Or vice versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejoe420 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Well, thank god the temp here has dropped a bit - hopefully it will induce more furs to appear - but knowing my luck, that ain't gonna happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKcoyote Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Is it just supposed to be a warm year in general, or is this indicative of...[...] ?? It is indicative of the general global warming trend. In the far northern latitudes global warming is extremely evident and already causing major problems for people and animals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGalanos Posted October 8, 2007 Author Share Posted October 8, 2007 I concur that the metric/English unit of measure conversion can be confusing ... But I also cannot believe the US has not converted yet (virtually everyone else has!). Some of the conversions are fairly easy (1 liter = roughly 1 quart/1 kilometer = roughly .6 mile/etc.) ... Others aren't (100 ML = what?/50 MM is how long?) ... But with a planned rollover and some practical experience along the way I would think it would go fairly smoothly. I had the misfortune of renting a late model car with English only speedometer (who knew they still made those!) on the south side of the border last spring and drove to Toronto and managed to convert distance accurately enough to avoid getting a ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 I just got back from my HS reunion in Virginia and it was 88F (31C). The humidity That's after leaving was a killer on top of it(15C) and 45F (7C) OFF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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