Saturday Was Warm But Not Sunny In Albuquerque

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Comment by Kay Brooks on January 23, 2011 at 2:50am

Hi Kevin,

I was inspired by Barb to convert my temperatures because she converts hers for us.   I'm not sure if I want to go the whole route with the meters, millibars, millimeters, knots, etc.   I decided it was easier to print out a chart rather than try to convert each temperature individually.  I just did an internet search for Fahrenheit/Celsius Conversion Chart and went through the selections one by one until I found the ones I liked.  I ended up using www.metric-conversions.org for all of them because they were the most useful.  They have conversions for many different measurements.   I use Dogpile as my search engine.  I don't like Google's politics so I don't use their search engine, although Dogpile searches through many different search engines and often returns pages found on Google.

 

I get the ceiling height from my Weather Underground page: 

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=A...

 

Got the Fahrenheit to Celsius table here:   (This is the easiest one to see - they have others)

http://www.metric-conversions.org/conversion-charts/temperature/fah...

 

Here's a couple more:

http://www.metric-conversions.org/cgi-bin/util/conversion-table.cgi...

http://www.metric-conversions.org/cgi-bin/util/conversion-table.cgi...

 

I got this one for the lower temperatures:

http://www.metric-conversions.org/cgi-bin/util/conversion-table.cgi...

 

I hope this helps you find what you are looking for.

Kay

Comment by Kevin Shaw on January 23, 2011 at 2:27am

Hi Kay! I may have missed a post somewhere, but when did you start using a Celsius chart? Must have pretty recently. Where did you get the chart? On the internet? Do you use a hard copy of it, converting as you go? When I do conversions, I wind up doing extra work - recording my data on a piece of paper, then going to the conversion program on the internet, and writing down the converted data, then going back to the page I need to go to , and then typing in the converted data, etc. I convert not only the temp, but the pressure (from inches of mercury to millibars), wind speed (from MPH to km/hr). I don't do the ceiling height (How do you determine that BTW?) , but if I did I would convert that too- from feet to meters. And if I have precip, I convert inches of snow or rain to centimeters or millimeters.. You don't have a lot of precip there in NM of course... I have had a very dry month of January since we have been cold, only had about 3/4 inch of precip so far this month (normal is around 3 inches).

Just kicking this around- not thinking of adding converted data (as yet) to my own daily weather post. Certainly up to you how many conversions you do with your daily post.

I certainly think more about it now, with our increasing interest in our Canadian friends to our north, and my occasional participation in TWN (The Weather Network) postings on FACEBOOK.