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Where I was born and raised, minus 20-22 F was a fairly normal daytime winter temp.

That was back in the day when we talked in Fahrenheit.

Now when I speak Fahrenheit, my daughter says she has no idea what I am saying :oops::giggle::giggle::giggle:

Canada officially switched in the early seventies, but I have always needed to convert back and forth.

Fahrenheit is more accurate ;)

And good morning, friends :D
Good morning M :)

Are you using Celsius now?
 

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Thank goodness for mild winters. -1C is more or less our coldest day.
I can tell when it is about 4* C... gloves are needed.

Our coldest on the coast used to be the rare minus 7 C,
though the last couple of years it has dipped to minus 8
 
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G'morning sir Gandy :) Yes, we be speaking in the C's for a while now, though I am bilingual LOL
Like my dad. He always talks about feet and inches and we use meters and millimeters ... I mean really; who is still using feet?


Now all the Americans are going to jump all over me :p
 
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I can tell when it is about 4* C... gloves are needed.

Our coldest on the coast used to be the rare minus 7 C,
though the last couple of years it has dipped to minus 8
Where my parents lived I experienced -8C once (without snow) but that was cold..............
 
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man, if the US ever switches to metric I'll be lost.........
I remember they touched on it a little when I was in grade school but not to much.
some of the school work my boys were bringing home had more and more metric related questions on it.....
I asked him to grab his ruler and messure something for me the other day, he said
"Um mom. what do you want me to messure with? the inches side or the CM side?"
 
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Our coldest on the coast used to be the rare minus 7 C,
now see, THAT sounds sooooooooo cold until I plug it into google converter and see that in F it is 19.4 (which is still cold, but doesn't sound as bad)
 
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man, if the US ever switches to metric I'll be lost.........
I remember they touched on it a little when I was in grade school but not to much.
some of the school work my boys were bringing home had more and more metric related questions on it.....
I asked him to grab his ruler and messure something for me the other day, he said
"Um mom. what do you want me to messure with? the inches side or the CM side?"
I am lost without the metric system :eek:
 

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Like my dad. He always talks about feet and inches and we use meters and millimeters ... I mean really; who is still using feet?


Now all the Americans are going to jump all over me :p
Well here it is weird, especially shopping for groceries, because some things are
marked per kilo and other per pound, so it is near impossible to compare prices LOL


Do they do this on purpose??? :unsure::giggle::devilish:

And my daughter, who does not have any grasp at all of Fahrenheit, still goes by feet and inches, and the ounce measures for cooking, like a quarter cup of butter and not 250 grams. SO it is a real mixed bag here. Even I cannot understand things like my height and weight in metric LOL. I need it in feet and inches and pounds :D
 
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Now all the Americans are going to jump all over me :p
haha, well I was writing my remarks about that when yours popped up :LOL:, sooooooo you get away with it (for now)
but yes, we will jump all over you........ and you know jumping requires FEET :LOL:
 
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Well here it is weird, especially shopping for groceries, because some things are
marked per kilo and other per pound, so it is near impossible to compare prices LOL


Do they do this on purpose??? :unsure::giggle::devilish:

And my daughter, who does not have any grasp at all of Fahrenheit, still goes by feet and inches, and the ounce measures for cooking, like a quarter cup of butter and not 250 grams. SO it is a real mixed bag here. Even I cannot understand things like my height and weight in metric LOL. I need it in feet and inches and pounds :D
That is confusing :) we only use kilograms and meters.
 
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I think it has got to do with the old British colonies. They are all using kilometers, and meters. We also drive on the right side of the road (which is left off course) :ROFL:
 
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We talk in centimetres and metres and our temp is in degrees, but we are odd :cautious:
Santa wears thongs and we have pet kangaroos instead of dogs and cats lol.
We drive on the left hand side of the road and we use kilometres.
 

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now see, THAT sounds sooooooooo cold until I plug it into google converter
and see that in F it is 19.4 (which is still cold, but doesn't sound as bad)
Yeah, I need a converter for just about everything but temperature ;):D My auto formula for the temp is: to convert from C to F, double and add 30. It is close enough :D Going from minus to above zero would prolly bungle that though LOLOLOLOLOLOL

15C with this formula is the perfect match :)

15 X 2 = 30 + 30 = 60. 15C = 60F :D