[PW] ?British Temperature Scale?

[Adrian Smith]

See also
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/faqs/3.html

"The Celsius scale is the World Meteorological Organization standard for
temperature measurement and is used throughout the world by the
meteorological community for global exchange of information."

"The SI unit for pressure is a pascal. The worldwide meteorological
community uses the hectopascal, i.e. a hundred pascals, which is the
metric equivalent of a millibar. However, millibars (and inches) are
still used in some public forecasts in the UK and USA."

Radio and tv weather forecasts attempted to switch from F to C, giving
one first then the other but public resistance to Centigrade/Celsius was
ingrained. The UK government Met. Office no doubt used C for its own
purposes but my newspaper today gives both C and, in brackets (F).

Adrian Smith, Leeds UK 

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Subject: [PW] ?British Temperature Scale?


When did Britain switch from the Farenheit to the Centigrade/Celsius
scale?

 

Luke

 
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