In uk.sci.weather on Fri, 4 May 2007, Dave Ludlow
wrote :

There also the fact that you can't leave electronic thermometers exposed
to damp, unlike mercury ones.

I like electronic thermometers with small wire probes - the wires and
probes are fine in the damp (and in water!).

True.

I hate those massive and
sluggish remote transmitter-sensors (Oregon, LaCrosse etc.)

I use my mini-screen to house the electronic bits.

I haven't used a mercury thermometer for donkey's years... it's too
bad if the "antique furnishings" brigade get upset, I say. They may be
worth hanging onto though, they could shoot up in value in a decade
or two's time.

I still have several of them hanging around (not literally).

I can see no reason why meteorological thermometers should be exempt.

As a kid, it was fun to play with liquid mercury, and I day say most of
us here did so, and we're still around...
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)