On Jan 15, 4:37*pm, Andy > wrote:
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> > On Jan 15, 4:07*pm, Andy > wrote:
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> >> > On Jan 14, 4:17*pm, Dave Smith
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> >> >> We are in the middle of a cold snap. It got down near 0 F last night
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> >> >> only up to about 10 degrees in the afternoon. That calls for comfort
> >> >> food. I made some rice pudding this afternoon and will do meat loaf
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> >> >> dinner tonight.
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> >> > Err what's that in real terms? *I've forgotten all those old terms
> >> > and don't have a bilingual outside thermometre to check. *Every so
> >> > often I see/hear a US weather report and go, "30 degrees ???? Oh yes
> >> > US".
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> >> > *I think we were about -24 C last night and I was seriously
> >> > considering porridge for breakfast but went with a poached egg.
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> >> > *It's a balmy -1`7C here now . *Where did I put that bathing suit?
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> >> > John Kane Kingston ON Canada
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> >> John,
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> >> You can easily use the Google search of "30 F in C" or "7C in F" *to
> >> convert. No quotes, of course.
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> >> Lots of other conversions are available. Try a couple. They got food
> >> measure conversions too.
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> >> Type: weather Kingston, ON, Canada OR weather media, pa OR pizza 92107
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> >> pizza Kingston, ON, Canada
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> >> Visit:http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/f...#calculatorfor
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> >> on the great variety of fast searching the web.
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> >> BTW, it looks crazy cold in Kingston, ON, Canada! -17° C (1° F)
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> >> Best,
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> >> Andy-
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> > Thanks Andy but it was just a gentle jab at Dave Smith for being so
> > old fashioned. * Hi Dave
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> > I can do to the conversion (roughly ) in my head but I really don't
> > think in F any more.I roughly know that 32F is freezing, 80 F is
> > getting comfortably warm (by my standards) and 100 F is damn hot and
> > that's about it.
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> > *If fact when somebody (Rosie?) mentioned that it had hit 23 degrees
> > in Texas and she was having a hard time getting warm I was wondering
> > what she wanted. I mean I keep my apartement at about 22 degrees.
> > OOPs , *she meant F not C.
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> > *I had not realized that Google could do them though. *Thanks
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> > John Kane Kingston ON Canada
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> John,
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> You're welcome!
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> Hope Dave takes the jab lightly. <G>

Let's hope so. Still I live in dread of finding out that he has his
bicycle computer set in miles rather than kilometres.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada