Storm in a tea cup: The weather thread

[ursus arctos]

It's a full ten degrees Fahrenheit cooler than yesterday, but still quite uncomfortable (at least for me). Thunderstorms expected later today.

[Sporting]

It's been 30º plus here for a month or so and this is set to continue until September.

[Guy Profumo]

It's a full ten degrees Fahrenheit cooler than yesterday, but still quite uncomfortable (at least for me). Thunderstorms expected later today.

What's that in "proper money", about 5½°?

[ursus arctos]

31+ in Celsius

[Sporting]

Guy (and other resident Brits): do you measure and weigh yourselves in Imperial or Foreign?

[Eggchaser]

Imperial, same with height. My mind just can't comprehend the dimensions of someone who is 1.8m tall and weighs 90 kilos.

[Guy Profumo]

Guy (and other resident Brits): do you measure and weigh yourselves in Imperial or Foreign?

Stones and kilos.

We're clever enough to multitask.

And know how to pronounce both spell and pronounce phœnix.

And spell sulfur.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Guy (and other resident Brits): do you measure and weigh yourselves in Imperial or Foreign?

Always imperial, though I could tell you what my height was in centimeters, (not my weight in kilos though).

[ad hoc]

I'm not sure when the switch came for me from knowing things primarily in imperial measurements, to knowing and using both, to now when I translate anything I see in imperial into metric. I've rented a bike here in the UK, and whenever I see a sign in miles I have to mentally translate to kms. That;s quite a new phase, I used to be equally comfortable in both.

[ursus arctos]

Any of our Londoners blacked out?

Our office in the City has been on backup generators for a couple of hours.

[DCI Harry Batt]

If we lose power, I'm going to have to emigrate.

[Moonlight Shadow]

On my hiking app distances are in miles but height gain/loss is in meters...go figure why i choose this configuration...

[ursus arctos]

Elevation in feet has never made any sense to me, even before we were living in Europe. The units just seem too small.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Imperial, same with height. My mind just can't comprehend the dimensions of someone who is 1.8m tall and weighs 90 kilos.

Skinny. That persons dimensions are skinny.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Skinny. That persons dimensions are skinny.

Those are pretty much my dimensions and trust me, I'm not skinny!

[Janik]

Yeah, 1m80 and 90kg is a BMI of ~27.5 for a male, with some variation of age/gender/ethnic group. 25-30 is classed as overweight as I know all too well from running my numbers through it, those being pretty well exactly 1m80 and 90kg! If we are taking 'skinny' to be underweight, then a 40 year old male would need to be less than 60kg to class as that.

[MsD]

It's set to be 37 degrees on Thursday. I may lie in the bath or under a damp sheet all day.

[Femme Folle]

We had a big thunderstorm this afternoon, and I think more expected for tomorrow. Hoping that it breaks this heatwave for a while.

Teddy did really well. I looked around and didn't see him in the living room, but found him lying on the rug in the bathroom. I let him stay--if we had had a tornado, I'd be the one looking foolish for not being in there with him.

[delicatemoth]

It's set to be 37 degrees on Thursday. I may lie in the bath or under a damp sheet all day.

This is gonna be a rough ride. I'd normally deal with a period like this by sleeping through the day, but the last week of Le Tour complicates that. At least I have provisions.

Sporting, I do both imperial and metric depending on context, but the unit I can't relate to reality at all is Fahrenheit.

[Sporting]

The one advantage about Fahrenheit is that 100º is such a psychological landmark.

[delicatemoth]

It is as the boiling point of water, I agree. In Fahrenheit it seems to be a relatively meaningless landmark - it's already been horribly hot since about 80, or 85, or somewhere around there. But I know you just wanted to show off that degrees symbol you've found.

[3 Colours Red]

The BBC also gives a "feels like" temperature on its app. It's forecast to top out at 29C/84F around here but it'll feel like 34C/93F.

I'm going to live in the fridge.

[Sporting]

It is as the boiling point of water, I agree. In Fahrenheit it seems to be a relatively meaningless landmark - it's already been horribly hot since about 80, or 85, or somewhere around there. But I know you just wanted to show off that degrees symbol you've found.

I've always had that symbol. Don't you?

[Felicity, I guess so]

I'm not sure when the switch came for me from knowing things primarily in imperial measurements, to knowing and using both, to now when I translate anything I see in imperial into metric. I've rented a bike here in the UK, and whenever I see a sign in miles I have to mentally translate to kms. That;s quite a new phase, I used to be equally comfortable in both.

I got my 1st bike computer/speedometer living in Madrid so it was set for km. I left it that way and still measure bike rides in km. It sounds like you’ve done a lot more

[Eggchaser]

I have neither air conditioning nor a fan in my office, although I do have a nice woollen suit to wear.