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My squirt-project is resting behind the garage-door to the right....


(whow, should't an 800*600 picture be larger than this... )

When i woke up today there where -18 deg C.... (thats about 0 deg Fahrenheit I think) so I guess no epoxy-work today either...

How is the weather today where you live.. put in some pictures of excotic places like Florida or California .... that's exotic enough for me right now.. I'm sick of freecing...

Roy

Well, I've had epoxy to not cure for me. But it wasn't because it was too cold. It was because I'm a knucklehead and I mixed it wrong. Had to scrape it all off and start over.

Anyway, It was in the high 50s for us here today. I don't know what that is in celsius. I sometimes wish the U.S. would go ahead and make the plunge and go metric. It's so much easier when you grab a 10mm wrench and it's just a little bit too small, you know the next size is 11mm. WOW, how hard is THAT? But if you grab a 3/8" wrench and it's too small, the next size is 7/16". I'm used to it but my wife goes into emotional turmoil if she's trying to hand me tools. Maybe this is why it's so hard to get her to help.

I read somewhere recently where the handgun of choice among Los Angeles street gangs is the 9mm. I think it's great that at least our nations's youths are embracing the metric system.

American street gangs....
It may be could where I'm living, but hell i'm glad we don't have to deal with that problem.. Norway is one of two countrys in the world (I'm told) where the police don't cary a gun. Of course there are "bad boys" everywhere, and the SWAT-teams are armed to the teeth to deal with that lot. But the regular cops don't cary guns. So the criminals don't "have to" cary either. Fewer people get shot that way. Probably sounds pretty naive to the american NRA, but it works over here...

When it comes to the metric system I too think it's a lot easier to deal with, but then again we don't use anything else... except when I want new tyres on the car, where the dimension is 14"x 195mm....

A tip if you have to convert things, do a google search. If you put "-18c to fahrenheit" or "1950mm to inch" in the search window, it will give you the right answer.

So your 50F is about +10C. Thats 28 degrees warmer then I have. But in a couple of months we'll be there....

Roy

I'm fluent in both metric and imperial measurements, at least feet and inches, millimetres, centimetres, metres etc..., and have little difficulty converting between them. Weights, volumes, and speed are fairly easy too unless I need to be really accurate.
But I've always had trouble with temperatures, I don't actually remember ever being taught the Fahrenheit system, I'm sure we used Centigrade all through school. When I need to convert temperatures I use THIS online converter.

The Celsius system is like the metric system very simple to understand. Water freece at 0c and boils at 100c. What fuzzy logic that is behind the Fahrenheit system is beyond me..

We learnd in school that Fahrenheit set the 0F pont at the equivalent of -17c because he didn't think it coult be any coulder than that.

Well, from my own experiance in the norwegian army some 20 years ago, it CAN... I have been out on what we call "military camping" in -45C (thats about -48F.. remember my remark about logic??).
You pee walking sticks in those temperatures..

I was in a vehicle maintainance crew, and one time during the "spring" there came in to our camp a truckload of US Marines(some NATO gathering). The temperatur was around -20c and they had been on the back of the truck traveling for about an hour from the airport. They where dressed up in there complite warderobe, and freecing like hell. A couple of us thought we would have some fun with them, so we parked another truck behind them. We had taken of our jackets, and with only trousers and a thin shirt we climbed out of the truck, laid down in the snow, grabbed the front bumper and draged ourself under the engine and discussed some parts we had to order and really took the time to do it right. After a couple of minutes we where nearly freecing to death, but the coments coming from the marines where hillarius. I think we manifested some myths about vikings and norwegian soldiers capability in winter conditions that day... Learned some new american words too...

Now THAT'S some funny stuff! That's GREAT!

The Florida Report as of 11:25AM (1115HRS.).

63*(F) or 17.22*(C), SUNNY, CLEAR BLUE SKYS, WIND 10MPR GUST 15-18MPR or 16K GUST 25-30K. The High Expected To Be Around 68*(F) or 20*(C).

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistr ... es_en.html

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/un ... hr.en.html

Over all, a vary nice day here in Central Florida.

Birmingham reports 65 Deg. Clear and Sunny. Looking for a high today of 74 Deg. F (23 Deg C)

Well up here in interior Alaska it is snowing and the temperatures are around -16 Celsius (3 degrees Fahrenheit). Last week we had a brief cold snap that dropped it down to -37 Celsius (-35 Fahrenheit) for a couple of days. Coldest day this winter was -49 Celsius (-57 Fahrenheit). Just a little nippy. But the good news is that the days are getting longer now so we get to see the sun again.

Jake

BTW, I used Roys google tip to make the coversions

We had 11C (51F) today and spring is springing. Frogs are getting frisky in my pond, the pair of Egyptian Geese that live in the hotel grounds already have half a dozen goslings, new shoots are showing all around the garden. Best of all my new skiff is finished just in time for the start of the good weather, although I'm so busy it probably won't hit the water until I return from holiday in 3 weeks time. It's probably ironic or something, but just as winter ends I'm off in search of snow!

Graham,
We have plenty of snow up here, come on by and I will take you out dog sledding
Jake

70 and sunny in GA today..and I still cant figure out how to post a picture..oh well...one less thing to worry about !!..

Steve

Hey Dave, could this be the start of a new Forum Index Call it "CLIMATE YOUR WAY"? Every one, when they sign in, could give a weather report of they'er location. (Could turn out better than the WEATHER CHANNEL!!!!)

Sounds CLIMATIC to me .............

Just under 30 deg C here in the Southern Hemisphere today(well, in my part of it anyway ).

I am the opposite I am waiting with baited breath for the snow to start falling. Although, our snow here is a pale imitation of your Northern Hemisphere stuff. Good snow to be had over in NZ as they are a bit further South than us. It is very cheap for us to get there as well, in the order of $1000 (A) gets you a week or so including car hire and lift tickets. I would love to ski Japan one day.

I have a neat little conversion program that does just about everything from anything. I will try to post it here sometime as it is very handy and I'm sure most of us would get something out of it.

I am lucky in that I did all my schooling in the metric system, whilst also doing the standard forms of fractions, but when I started my apprenticeship as a Fitter/Machinist I was introduced to fractions of inches and I still generally converse in inches. To this day if you say that something needs to have 1 thousandth of an inch machined off I get it, but I cannot 'see' 1 hundreth of a millimetre which is what is taught these days. BTW, there is approximately 39 thou " to 1 millimetre.

Interesting point about Mr. Fahrenheit - I wonder if he had ever heard of the Kelvin system

Great Day, here in Sunny Central Florida!!

This morning, 58*F, now 76*F, going to reach 80*F today!! Going for the shorts and RAKE Room-Mate says, GET-ER-DONE! (We here in Florida, it's your time to do the Leaf Thing.)