{"id":2076,"date":"2015-02-18T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:43:29","slug":"why-americans-still-use-the-fahrenheit-temperature-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/02\/why-americans-still-use-the-fahrenheit-temperature-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans still use the Fahrenheit temperature scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vox.com<\/em> had an interesting article this week which discussed the history of the Fahrenheit and Centigrade temperature scales and why the US is the only major country that still uses the Fahrenheit scale. \u00a0You might enjoy reading about the controversy\u00a0<a title=\"Vox on F scale\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/2\/16\/8031177\/america-farenheit\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall Shepherd, UGA Geography professor, posted a blog <a title=\"WxUnderground on metric system and weather\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/DrShepherdWxGeeks\/comment.html?entrynum=39&amp;fb_ref=Default\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> this morning discussing the topic and promoting the idea that meteorology can lead the way into the metric era. \u00a0After all, he points out, &#8220;Weather is the science folks see daily&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When will the US get the &#8220;F&#8221; out? \u00a0Only time will tell.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2078\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Hotel_Baron_thermometer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2078\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Hotel_Baron_thermometer-159x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Bernard Gagnon, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"159\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Hotel_Baron_thermometer-159x300.jpg 159w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Hotel_Baron_thermometer.jpg 542w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/Hotel_Baron_thermometer-73x138.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Bernard Gagnon, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox.com had an interesting article this week which discussed the history of the Fahrenheit and Centigrade temperature scales and why the US is the only major country that still uses the Fahrenheit scale. \u00a0You might enjoy reading about the controversy\u00a0here. Marshall Shepherd, UGA Geography professor, posted a blog article this morning discussing the topic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":2078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}