Hot Hot Hot!

[mightyWBA]

Say what you like but I like my heat in Farenheit. 100F just sounds better than 30 whatever C.
I can see those weather forecasters on the BBC just dying to say it in Farenheit,why aren't they allowed to?

[Zen]

Quite agree with you,as an older person.I think it may be something to do with the EU ? I went for a Pound of carrots the other day and the shop assistant said it 's Kilos now,so I said give me a pound of kilos!!!!!!!

[spudqueen]

I'm an imperial not metric person, I still ask for a pound of meat, it's not illegal to ask for it in pounds - yet! Funnily enough the only thing I understand in 'non-english' is cold weather, as 0� sounds freezing! In hot weather it's got to be in Farenheit though, 30� just doesn't sound hot, and I've no idea how hot it actually is, though I know just how hot 75� or 82� or 98� is!

[Tweed]

Well, I happen to think that metric makes most sense and it's just a case of getting used to it. While 6 & half feet is much easier to remember than 1981mm or 1.981m, I concede, but centegrade gives us easy reference points that we all know, i.e. approx. ice = 0 deg, and boiling water = 100 deg.

Don't know about the BBC however. Maybe it's an EU initiative to standardise?

[halfadaily]

I've noticed a couple of the weatherfolk have added as an aside at the end of the forecast, that we might reach the magic 100 degrees tomorrow. They can't resist it, can they ?
I'm 54, so have spent over 30 years with metric, but I still use what I learnt at school.

[Whickerman]

I too use what i learned in school (in Ireland) - metric. I have no idea what 75�F is, but 25�C makes total sense to me. (I'm 36 btw). As for length, it's mm all the way, as well as kilos for weight. It's just logical.

[Robinia]

Same here.....all I know is that anything over 25C (77F) is too hot for me....we're expecting 35C (mid 90s I think) today in Derby, so the reality will be much more than that.

[Rock'n'Roll]

I much prefer Farenheit,as I do Pints,miles, Pounds,ounces,ten bob bits. Gallons. If they must give the temperatures in Celsius or whatever,then the English equivilant should be used also

[teag1rl]

Well on GMTV thye're using farenheit and not degrees centigrade because apparently it makes more sense when talking about such high temperatures. Makes more sense to OAPs more like-as it's them they're trying to get the heat message across to-don't forget to drink lots of water and keep cool or you'll die like thousands of old people in the French heatwave! Farenheit means nowt to me as I went to school in the 90s (1990's that is).

[aristotle]

I'm delighted they've given up that outdated Fahrenheit nonsense. Celsius makes so much more sense and is much easier to understand especially as everybody else in Europe and the rest of the civilised world uses it. Why not let go and join the twentieth century - some of us are now in the twenty-first!