In article ,
Will Hand writes:

"John Hall" wrote in message news:JmXpkcHUHY
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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

I think that for weather purposes, Celsius has a big advantage over
Kelvin, in that the change from positive to negative values makes very
obvious an important attribute of the weather. A change from above to
below 273 hardly has the same impact. Also two digit values are easier
to handle than three digit ones.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)