What's the weather like where you are ?

[Trev]

I thought that yo meant as they were higher, they would get hit first. A bit like putting a sat dish on a long pole to get nearer the sats.

 

[Deleted member 473]

I'll just stick with F then.. never know what a number in Centigrade will feel like unless it's near zero.

Easy

0°C freezing
10°C cool
20°C warm
30°C hot

 

[Deleted member 473]

I reported mine off BBC weather!

Google can do any conversions you like. Type

20 celcius in fahrenheit

into the search or address bar. It can do other units too and also sums like

today + 12 weeks

Very useful for one of my medications!

Aren't these functions borrowed from a Unix shell?

 

[MikeSh]

I thought that yo meant as they were higher, they would get hit first. A bit like putting a sat dish on a long pole to get nearer the sats.

No, that wouldn't flood them ... just squash them. Sheffield is on the east of the Pennines, so a big splash in the N Sea might dampen them a bit

 

[Deleted member 473]

I thought that yo meant as they were higher, they would get hit first. A bit like putting a sat dish on a long pole to get nearer the sats.

Or a church steeple.

 

[Deleted member 473]

The coastline was at Doncaster as recently as the last ice age.

Actually, not strictly true, the ice caused a freshwater lake to form over much of south yorks. Hornsea Mere is all that remains of it.

 

[Black Hole]

14°C here in Sheffield, at 200m.

Ah, that's nearly 60F at a bit over 600ft
That took about 15 seconds to calculate and type. Calculate the real numbers and tell me how long it took you.

Tsk.

14°C 28 25.2 57.2°F

200m 220 660 656ft

Hardly any time at all - you just need to know some tricks.

 

[Deleted member 473]

The only trick you need is to think in °C, it isn't that hard. As for my elevation, I rounded it up to 200m, it is really 199m, which comes to 652 feet 10.646 inches.

 

[af123]

The only trick you need is to think in °C, it isn't that hard. As for my elevation, I rounded it up to 200m, it is really 199m, which comes to 652 feet 10.646 inches.

It isn't that hard to think in °F either - I've done it all my life!
The newspapers switch too when it's warm enough : )

 

[Trev]

14°C 28 25.2 57.2°F

200m 220 660 656ft

Right answer, but I don't understand your strange method.
Mine was easy. 14 degrees is about 15, 15C=about 60F. 1m is about 3 feet times 200 for an approximate answer.
Bear in mind, that I am deliberately using a quick and dirty method of approximation, but being a stickler for precision, you are using an unnecessary, far more complex algorithm. Please explain.

 

[Deleted member 473]

1m is about 40". Or 3.28' more accurately. So a quick and dirty method is multiply by 3 and add on a tenth of that, ie, multiply by 3.3. So, for an elevation of 474m, 3 times 474 equals 1422, add 142 to get 1564. It really is quicker to get your browser to do the calculation!

I agree, I usually cannot tell a difference of a few °C, and if I go upstairs or stoop, there is little point in accurate altitude either.

So, quick and dirty works for me in this context, as does using the browser to do the calculation.

Ex. What is 8611m in feet and inches?

Ans. 28,251' 3.748"

 

[Trev]

Agreed, but it's actually 39.375 inches.
And multiples of 40 inches is a bugger to change to feet even if you do know your 12 times table.

 

[Black Hole]

it is really 199m

199m 219 657 653ft

Right answer, but I don't understand your strange method.

I've already explained it, and as long as I (or you) can remember it, it's easy enough as a metal calculation - only involving simple multiplications and point shifting. Ditto metres to feet (add 10%, x3, subtract 1% of the original twice).

you are using an unnecessary, far more complex algorithm.

But I get much closer to the proper conversion, with very little extra effort. Whether it's unnecessary depends on what is good enough for purpose - I doubt "double it and add 30" would be very useful if you were trying to decide if somebody was running a temperature.

 

[Trev]

But I get much closer to the proper conversion, with very little extra effort.

But does it pass the 'so what' test?

 

[Black Hole]

That's up to you. One can lead a horse to water...

(Yes, that ellipsis is three dots - so what!)

 

[trog]

But is such accuracy needed when all we are doing is then converting that figure into our recollection of how hot or cold that feels?

 

[Deleted member 473]

with very little extra effort

Only if the original number is easy.

http://www.whatismyelevation.com

 

[Deleted member 473]

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[prpr]

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...but a pencil must be lead.

 

[Trev]

So, for an elevation of 474m, 3 times 474 equals 1422, add 142 to get 1564.

473m is a bit under 500m which multiplied by three gives 1500 feet which is likely to be a tad low but close enough if you think in feet. (about 4% wrong)

It really is quicker to get your browser to do the calculation!

Not if your computer is not on and your smartphone isn't handy and you want an approximate quick and dirty conversion.