Snow in May??

The usual Met Office drizzle.

All hail the Met. Office
 
Snow in May isn't unheard of around these parts, I remember starting my "summer" GCSE's in the middle of May with a French oral exam whilst it was snowing outside! Rare to see it lie though.

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I've encountered snow in July before, here in Engerland.
 
Ive seen it in June (1976 of all years - in the Midlands too not up here in near polar haggisland......)
 
Errm, I remember 76 and it was the hottest mid-year of my life.

In every way.

I was 19.
 
Lazarus said:
Errm, I remember 76 and it was the hottest mid-year of my life.

In every way.

I was 19.
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Was for me as well also in every way, I was living in the Middle East in temperatures some can only imagine, I was 22 at the time
 
Fahrenheit, presumably? <_<
 
Celsius last time i looked :eek:

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Fahrenheit is a stupid temperature scale, it isn't even linear like Celsius and Kelvin :D

And that's tonight's totally useless fact.

from the people who brought you BEEEEEEEEEER MILKSHAKES!!

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Manicscrewdriver said:
Fahrenheit is a stupid temperature scale, it isn't even linear like Celsius and Kelvin...
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Sorry but it's as linear as any other scale. It just uses different reference points for zero and 100 degrees.
 
I hate F as a scale. Makes no sense to me as to why water would freeze at 32°... Yes, it was created from other 'checkpoints' but it really shouldn't be used for outside temperatures.
 
Going to be a warm one today in the Midlands but...... expected rain this afternoon. Met office yellow early warning of rain :D
 
And you trust the Met Office? o_O
 
TBH, I take a view from looking at the sky in the morning. Normally good enough to plan around... Until I get caught in the rain on a roof ;)
 
Captain Jack said:
I hate F as a scale. Makes no sense to me as to why water would freeze at 32°... Yes, it was created from other 'checkpoints' but it really shouldn't be used for outside temperatures.
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It is a matter of opinion really. And what you're brought up makes the most sense to a person. I've long been aware of the Reumer scale (zero for freezing point of water and 80 for its boiling point) which is, I believe, Russian (attention CJ).

What I wasn't aware of until I just looked it up were the Rankine, Remer, Newton and Delisle scales.

Scale of temperature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
I'd say hardly anyone under 40 these days in the UK at least chooses to use Fahrenheit over Celsius to describe temperature. It's been one element of metrification that has been a success.

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Fisty McB said:
It's been one element of metrification that has been a success.
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That's cos it makes sense, below 0°C, freezing, above 0°C, not freezing, +100°C (sea level) & above, boiling, simple... :)

Fahrenheit just wanted to put temperatures in circles, with Freezing point and Boiling point 180 Degrees apart...
 
But why did Kelvin end up at 373.2K for the boiling point of water, understand 0 Kelvin, when all movement stops, but why the .2?
Are we talking dimensions of a satellite dish?
 
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