Saturday’s temperature had triggered an excessive heat warning across Arizona as lows were expected to range between 80F and 86F

On Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service announced that the temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor international airport reached 110F, making it the 54th day this year with temperatures of at least 110F.

Saturday’s temperature breaks the previous record of 53 days that was set in 2020. From 1991 to 2020, the average consecutive days of 110F or above is 21 days, the NWS said.

An excessive heat warning has been issued for south central and south-west Arizona until 8pm on Sunday as weekend highs are expected to range between 108F and 114F. Meanwhile, lows are expected to range between 80F to 86F.

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All that may be true, but doesn’t account for the way metric allows for easy calculations between energy, weight, distance and temperature.

How often do you do conversions like that.

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Once in a while, probably because it’s easy, I think if I was using imperial I wouldn’t because it’s impossible without tools.

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No now that I think about it, I do it all the time in the kitchen, where volume to weight is extremely common when I cook, because often things are measured in volume, but I prefer to use the weight.

½ a liter water or milk or almost any fluid without extra dish-washing? Easy you just put it on the weight, select tara, and pour 500 grams. Voila you just saved both kitchen space and extra work. because 1g = 1ml with water and most fluids.

I guess if you are used to Freedom units, this may sound like science fiction, but this has been reality in many countries for a long time already.

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this may sound like science fiction

I laughed…

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Thank you. Not everybody can see the joke. Most science fiction use metric, even though it is American made, and I’m a huge fan of Science Fiction. 😀

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