A matter of degrees: will metric weather ever conquer the United States? (Weather Talk).

From: Weatherwise | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Henson, Robert | Copyright information

When you read about an extreme heat wave or cold snap in a U.S. newspaper, you are unlikely to see the temperatures identified specifically as Fahrenheit. That's because this system has been the national norm--outside of scientific arenas, that is--for two centuries.

Yet the United States stands alone among industrial nations in relying on English-based units rather than the metric system. As early as 1900, all of the world's industrial powers except Great Britain and th...

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