"Beable van Polasm" wrote in
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How long will meteorologists keep using "hectopascals"? What's
wrong with using the SI unit of kilopascals? Surely everybody
knows that they are only using hectopascals because they can
pretend that they are the old-timey "millibars". If they want
to use millibars, then use them. Don't slap a different label
on them and pretend that you are SI-compliant when you're not.

NO MORE HECTOPASCALS

While we're at it, who says we have to measure snow depth vertically?
Why can't we measure tangentially to the surface - just think of the
records that will be broken! Or we could measure snow depth in units of
area - "I had over an acre of snow on the back porch this morning, with
drifts of three hectares against the back door! I had to shovel a
square cubit just to get the car out of the garage..."

Heck, just the other day at the ballfield, I saw a fellow with a
baseball as big as a hailstone!

DEATH TO MILLIBARS!