Jaminneapolis
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
Posts: 822
Location: Minneapolis, MN U.S.A.
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 Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 06:17 |
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Pietro,
Im not sure why the U.S. uses farenheit and everyone else uses celsius. Kinda the same for the metric system. The U.S. doesn't use it. We don't use meters, we use inches, feet, and yards. F'd up to everyone but Americans I know lol.
As for 0 degrees celsius translating to what water freezes, it's 32 degrees farenheit. So when you say 20 is shorts wether, here I think maybe that measures to 65 or 70. Now you know how 0 degrees celsius is considered cold? As I said that translates to 32 degrees farenheit. Well in Minnesota, it can get to be like -10, sometimes minus -20. That means 10 below zero!!! Fuckin Cold!!!!
When the wind blows we have wind chill temps, which can be like -30 or -40 sometimes during the winter. What that means is since the wind is blowing, the wind chill is how cold it feels.
But there are such extreme differences between north and south U.S. In the winter in Florida, Southern California, Texas, Arizona, etc. It can always be 60 70 degrees. 50 degrees is considered freezing for them! But Im way up in the north part of the U.S., so the winters are brutal cold and last long.
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jay88
Joined: 22 Apr 2005
Posts: 281
Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 08:02 |
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A president once said it would be far too expensive to ever change to the metric system... not worth anybodies time, i guess for the same reason US paper money has never changed (has it?) My favourite money is swiss... their notes are all rainbowy. i had the equivalent of 60 aus dollars of it once and it didnt get it changed back when i came home.
Back on the subject of cold... it ruins everything! |
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