Indeed. A degrees used to mean that you were capable of thinking. (Today it means you are capable of reading and remembering). It never meant you were capable of doing.
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Dec 09, 2012
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No, but they should do.
I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit degrees really would go out of date.
In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable proportion of their word count repeating temperatures in F.
You mean they waste a lot of time giving us data in a format foisted upon us before giving us the temperature in *proper* units? ;-)
Tim
But which forecasts use the kelvin? :-)
Since when? The Beeb hasn't used F for a while.
Maybe it is only the local segments? But definitely they keep slipping in an F.
Look East don't use F.
When I'm watching Alex Dolan doing the weather on Look East, I'm afraid that there's another kind of "slipping in" I'm thinking about.
Apparently there is og over much of the country today
Plenty of local forecasts mention the temp in F from time to time.
You might say that, I couldnt possibly comment.
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Should have done that when changing, as it's more useful. After all, absolute zero is 0K.
ve
They are still used in America. Along with inches, feet and pounds. DegF is no more illogical than degC. Now you might argue degK is logical.
I don't get the, umm, pleasure! Although geographically within BBC East, and would more appropriately get London or, possibly, South from Oxford, we actually get South from Southampton. Which almost entirely fails to cover us! And misses Alex Dolan.
Not in everyday life it isn't.
They might use Rankine scale, Delisle, Newton, Réaumur or Rømer in other countries for all I know. But I was referring to UK broadcasts. And I really was not arguing about the logicality of F versus C so much as consistency and unnecessary duplication.
Its NOT OK .
Its bloody freezing!
Brr
Now now - shivering won't happen at 0K.
My degree is Biology. It's out of date. Nowadays I assume everyone knows a _little_ about DNA... was I wrong?
Andy
Yes. You massively overestimate the intelligence of the general public.
Huge wrote: [snip]
Indeed, and startling as it may be for you to hear, the phlogiston theory was found to be incorrect.
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