guess you know it already, but europe is not a single country

I guess you didn't know at the time that your direct neighbors - Canada and Mexico - used Metric?

The scale you put forward is obviously relative to who's reading it.
Someone from Italy will see it differently than someone from Poland.

It's also relative to when you're reading it.

As a Canadian, I'd classify 10 degrees as "cool" on a Summer day. I'd wear long sleeves.
But if I woke up tomorrow (mid February) and it was 10 degrees,
I'd be drinking sangrias in a Tshirt at an outdoor patio, fanning myself with the menu.

From the revised article (last sentence)
"read ... readings" doesn't read very well
"us Americans" implies that only people living in the USA will be reading your page
"our neighbors from countries that read Celsius" might as well be replaced with "the rest of the world"

Thanks again to all for the feedback. I think BadCop is right, that a lot of it is relative to where you live and how conditioned you are by the weather there to tolerate various temperatures.


Yes, I've been to England as well as main land Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain). I typed the article at work in less than 10 minutes and wasn't paying close attention to every word. I should have said either "place" or pluralized it as European countries.




You know, that's weird. I've been to Mexico over 10 times now, so I did know that, but it didn't cross my mind as I was writing the article. I was thinking in terms of Europe for some reason. I think maybe because I got the idea to write the article after reading L@rue's post about the weather in the chatroom and I know he's European.



Excellent suggestions. Thanks Vokaris!

hehe L@rue is Canadian

Haha. Are you serious? I thought he was from France or somewhere over there (Belgium)...

well, they also speak French in Canada

We started of with the old system then converted to metric...best thing ever...I think we are one of the few countries that did the full conversion as well, weights, measures temp and monetary system. Un like my Pommy counterparts

Yeah, I remember that when I was in Toronto in 1999. I guess I'm sort of a one track mind person. I see someone typing in French, so I think they're from France.

Woo!

Metric system rules!

Go Australia!

my 2c...