No idea, 30 something I think. Fortunately we can still get thermometers with both readings. I'm ok with 0 for freezing, then I know it's cold. -30 is almost the same in both measurements and I know that is too cold to go out (for me anyway) and +30 is really hot and I'm not going to be happy. It's the inbetween temps I have trouble with. If they say it's going to be 15 I don't know if that means I need a jacket. I've been trying to get it figured out but for some reason it just doesn't make sense to me.

mokey41 wrote:I'm ok with metric except for temperature. I still need to see F to know if I need a jacket!

Normally, it far easier to handle. The best temperature scale where Kelvin because it started really at zero, but nobody (I'm included) want to use it in the private range. I stuck at the Celsius scale also would not like to change it.

I will have to check what units mine is in. I assumed miles, but I will doublecheck.

FYI body temp is about 37 degrees. Because of Mokeys location in St Catherines, I think, will probably always use imperial measurements because of proximity to border. I grew up around Windsor and it was the same back then. We were Canadian but knew more about states that canada.

You're right jvv, I like the news out of Buffalo because they tell me temps in F! Even in the stores here things are in pounds with a metric price underneath. I was out of school by the time metric came in here so I never really learned it. My kids look at me like I'm crazy when I say something is 6" or 8 oz.

Its the same here Mokey. They advertise lbs I think because it looks cheaper. My grandkids don't even know what an inch is if I am in the workshop building something. They look at you like you are from outer space.

Old folks are quite out of the universe.

Only to your children. Grandchildren are a whole different story. My granddaughters think I know and can do everything. It makes it worth the years of listening to "Oh Mom you don't know anything" to now have my granddaughter telling her dad he doesn't know anything because Grandma said something different!

Here in the UK units are especially mixed up. We are sort-of metric, but we still use imperial for some things. I'm 5 foot 11, and weigh 90kg, drink pints of beer, drive at 70mph, and when I buy an 8 foot long piece of 2x4 pine it comes in 2.43 meter lengths

Love it Paul - spot on. I know all sorts of conversion techniques to get me through the basics in life.