Before we return to serious ranting…
xkcd created a helpful "real world" guide to metric measurement for those of us still living firmly in the imperial world … but I gotta say, taking a good look at the temperature scale, it doesn't really resonate for me. So, in the spirit of the weather here STILL being too damn cold to start my truck in the morning (or at noon for that matter), I've created a revised Alaskan version.
Actually, two Alaskan versions … because seriously, 0ºC/32ºF is just not the same thing in June as in December…
And considering I had to go look up a proper Fahrenheit-to-Celsius/Centigrade table to even figure out what the conversions were (except for 0ºC/32ºF and -40ºC/F, which I remember), I'll include one of those too:
| Centigrade | Fahrenheit |
|---|---|
| 40ºC | 104ºF |
| 35ºC | 95ºF |
| 30ºC | 86ºF |
| 25ºC | 77ºF |
| 20ºC | 68ºF |
| 10ºC | 50ºF |
| 0ºC | 32ºF |
| -5ºC | 23ºF |
| -10ºC | 14ºF |
| -20ºC | -4ºF |
| -30ºC | -22ºF |
| -40ºC | -40ºF |
| -50ºC | -58ºF |
That ought to make just about anyone feel better about their weather. Last week, when it was actually down around -60ºF, I looked all over on online weather sites, trying to find somewhere that was colder than us. I found one town in Alaska that was the same temperature … but even Siberia was warmer.
i like. i'm also impressed how closely you matched xkcd's text style.
8th January 2009 at 8:02 pm | permalink |Having done things in Celsius most of my life I find myself having to deal with Fahrenheit when I'm in the US. I've yet to find out what zero degrees F feels like though =:0
9th January 2009 at 11:47 am | permalink |Can we just get more serious ranting? ;-)
Having a crappy day here and feeling angry … and smart.
9th January 2009 at 1:15 pm | permalink |Yeah, I never expected the cold weather to have this nicey effect on Alpha. The posts have been, dare I say, downright milquetoast-like, lately. But hey, I get it's fucking cold. I have an account in Anchorage and want get up there to see him…ok, I want some great Midnight Sun Brewing Barleywine but my day job gets in the way. I have a curiosity of just how cold 50 below is. Thinking of a Feb. visit…
10th January 2009 at 5:40 pm | permalink |See now, people bitch about me not tearing things to shreds … then I post more actual rants, and nobody comes to the party.
*sulk*
Fine, I'll just go back to weather-blogging then.
16th January 2009 at 2:07 pm | permalink |So yeah, it got above 45 today. Elsewhere in the state it topped 47.
However.
Cooking an egg on the footpath, still not doable.
27th January 2009 at 10:25 pm | permalink |Didn't have a black car available for testing, sadly.
Apparently I fit right in with Alaskan winters.
12th February 2009 at 8:25 pm | permalink |