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Phaedra
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Varin wrote:
I swear Wisconsin peeps are made to withstand the cold. They must have some special genetic advantage. Last winter I'd be walking around with full winter gear and would see entire families in shorts and tshirts.
Yuppers.
I was strolling down State Street on my way to a concert one clear and brisk November evening, attired in a short-sleeved black dress, and I passed a bundled-up man who said to me, in a rolling Caribbean accent, "You must have some Northern blood!" while shivering.
Varin wrote:
Besides, the real nuts are those people that live up in the arctic grip of Canada.
Agreed.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:42 pm
krystyn
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If it's 40F in Chi-town, you can start wearing shorts.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:38 pm
Varin
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krystyn wrote:
If it's 40F in Chi-town, you can start wearing shorts.
Obviously the genetic ice queen mutation didn't cross over the Indiana border. We like to start wearing pants when it gets to be around 70 degrees. Sweaters when it's 60.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:23 pm
Phaedra
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Varin wrote:
krystyn wrote:
If it's 40F in Chi-town, you can start wearing shorts.
Obviously the genetic ice queen mutation didn't cross over the Indiana border. We like to start wearing pants when it gets to be around 70 degrees. Sweaters when it's 60.
No KIDDING.
/me doesn't break out the sweaters until it gets below freezing.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:44 pm
jamesi
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We don't start to consider closing schools here until the temperature hits -32º C. Even then, teachers are expected to show up. Last year I went to school in -42º C (with windchill) cold.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:36 pm
rose
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temperature So to convert a negative Centigrade temperature to Fahrenheit do you just do the standard calculation and then put a minus sign in front of the result?
9/5C +32= F
Cause that method is giving me -42 C = -107.6 F
Can that possibly be correct?
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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:03 am
Cortana
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Re: temperature
rose wrote:
So to convert a negative Centigrade temperature to Fahrenheit do you just do the standard calculation and then put a minus sign in front of the result?
9/5C +32= F
Cause that method is giving me -42 C = -107.6 F
Can that possibly be correct?
-40F = -40C = freezing point of alcohol.
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:10 am
jamesi
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 2195 Location: Canadia
No.
To convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit:
[(9/5)*C]+32 where C is the temperature in Celsius
or
[1.8*C]+32 where C is the temperature in Celsius
So... -30º C = [1.8 X -30] + 32
= -54 + 32
= -22º F
And... -40º C = [1.8 X -40] + 32
= -72 + 32
= -40º F
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