See, now this is what happens when you outsource the code that controls your temperature readings to Indians on H-1Bs:
Hand to God, that is an absolutely real screenshot, taken at about 5.48am EST, from Accuweather.com.
I haven’t lived in the USA for over a year, so I am a bit out of touch with local seasonal weather patterns on the East Coast. But I am QUITE certain that mid-July in that part of the USA does not involve sub-zero temperatures.
On the plus side… if ever there was an excuse to hop into your SUVs and go burning some rubber down the I-495 – or the I-87, more realistically, given that the I-495 is always jam-packed with cars – then there you have it. Go for a long, long drive, burn up lots of petrol, and have a good time.
After all, if you don’t, New York will freeze. In summer.
And you’ll piss off the enviroweenies while doing it, so it’s a win-win-win all around.
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I still think it's a hoax, but the rhetoric of the meme is inescapable:
There are two types of countries: those that use the metric system, and those who have been to the moon.
Well, technically Russia and China have landed unmanned probes on the Moon, and they have been using the metric system (or "sensible units", as I think of them) for decades.
In terms of manned missions, of course, you Yankees are still the only ones ever to get there and back again – even with your infernally complicated old-school system.
That reminds me of that old funny story about how NASA's JPL and Lockheed Martin Astronautics managed between them to lose a $125 million probe because JPL was using Newton-seconds while LMA was using pound-seconds:
latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-01-mn-17288-story.html
Ten years later and the world still hasn't figured it out ))