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Old January 15th 11, 11:30 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Will Hand Will Hand is offline
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"John Hall" wrote in message
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In article ,
Phil Layton writes:
It looks like the aviation standard will become hectopascals before the
year is out...

Much easier to say :-(


Some of us are still struggling to forget inches of mercury.


Good grief! They went out in the Stone Age. I'm an SI man, Pascals (OK hecto
if you wish), Kelvin (OK C if you wish), Metres, Kg but I do like my wind
speeds in knots :-)

Will
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