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Personally I can't stand the imperial system. I plan on beating it to death with a blunt spoon. 82F as you call it is nearly perfect weather. 27c. take that down to about 24 and it's heaven.
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Well, we should really talk about our mass.
I use the international standard "SI" system. Mass - kg Weight (a force) - Newtons, N Temperature - degrees Celsius or more confusing to uneducated proles: Kelvins (Interesting aside: I type this from what used to be Lord Kelvin's office; now a computer lab. Oooh, doesn't that make me feel important!)
And Liam, i too face the ternal dillemma coat or no coat?!
This morning's forecast: Cloudy with occasional sunny spells, but some rain. Outside: Sunny skies all morning and 20 C. Useless!
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It's odd even though I live only a short distance from the US, and have grown up watching their television and movies, I have never understood the Farhenheit sytem. As to the local tempurature it has been quite warm, ~27 C most of the week.
Another interesting note about metric is that you are meant to measure all time in seconds.
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Well, to convert it there's a simple formula:
(F� x 5/9) - 32 = C�
where F is the temperature in Farhenheit, and C is the answer you want in Celsius
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0 degrees = too cold to go outside for any reason except to earn a living.
0-32 = Freezing cold.
32 (just short of 1/3 up to 100) = Demarcation between freezing cold and fargin' cold. Ideal temperature for American beer.
32-50 = Fargin' cold, but not too bad if the wind isn't blowing.
50 = The ideal temperature for many beers, except American brews.
50-68 = Cool. Bring a sweater or windbreaker.
68 (about 2/3 up from the bottom) = Pretty nice out. Demarcation between cool and just right.
68-100 = lower range is just right, depending on what you're most comfortable with (except polar bears/eskimos). Upper range is kinda warm ranging to rather hot.
100 = hotter than you are. Go inside and drink iced drinks.
Over 100 = really hot. Wear sunscreen and stay indoors as much as possible (air-conditioning is highly recommended).
The above chart should allow anyone unfamiliar with the Fahrenheit system to estimate the ambient temperature with the degree of accuracy required by non-professionals.
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I like the method, Baloo, but it's all relative. Living in New England, between 50-60 F (10-15 C) is about the most comfortable temperature to me...anything above 70 F (20 C, well, 21, but I like round numbers) is too hot.
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Baloo? you're from Nuevo Mexico? Where? *L* I'm at school at UNM-Albuquerque. Heh. Don't know the NM geography *quite* well enough just yet to know if that qualifies as 'east' or not though...all i know is the mountains are to the east ;-)
*leaves to study for espanol some more* :P
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J-W: On a map of New Mexico that includes the Texas panhandle, draw a straight line from Albuquerque to Lubbock. Clovis should be just inside NM where the line crosses the NM/TX border.
Notice something else about the map. It's sparsely populated. You have to drive 100 miles or more to get to a bigger burgh than Clovis, and Clovis ain't no Metropolis!
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Cool, Baloo I see. Pretty sure some of the girls I've met are from around there...couldn't pick out any names though.
it's SO weird...we've had all this super cold weather up in ABQ...all of us wearing sweats and wishing we hadn't packed all our turtlenecks and stuff yet. it was somewhat nicer yesterday, and then today its SUPER hot...very weird. *L*
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Same deal here. Upper temps got into the lower 90's (~lower-mid 30's C). Low temp this morning was the high temp a few days ago (less than a week).
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Monty, everyone knows that the last digit is 3.
(See, no one can conclusively deny this, so... )
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*chuckles* wanna bet, Frank? I had NO IDEA the last digit was 3 ;-) *L* In fact, i think the bug wall length poster that was in my geometry room my sophomore year stopped at 7. hehehe...
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I see. Pretty sure some of the girls I've met are from around there...couldn't pick out any names though.
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