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Not tested the app, but on the website, changing WIND SPEED UNITS to "Metres per second (m/s) or km/h" (via the cog icon at the top of the screen) still has no effect on display of wind gust speeds - they remain in mph.

Also, inconsistent use of 12h/24h times. Why has 12h clock been introduced?
January 15, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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davidfutyan.bsky.social
Main issues for me: No hourly wind gusts in main table. No option to change units, e.g. metric units for wind speed. In detailed sections and maps: no momentum scrolling or overscroll bounce effect, and scrolling only works if you swipe on icons or text.
January 14, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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stevedoherty.bsky.social
I wish QI would decide if it’s a metric programme or an imperial one.
January 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social Old UK Print Ads 70s/80s/90s @oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social · Dec 10
Dec 1972: Metrication Check List for Managers ad from The Metrication Board

(+Regular publications related to metrication)

«Business is simpler in metric.»
This advertisement encourages managers to adopt the metric system in their businesses, highlighting the increasing metrication in Britain by 1975. It offers a checklist for managers to arrange their metrication programme to get the maximum benefit at the minimum cost. Business is simpler in metric. By 1975 Britain will be substantially metric. This Government has endorsed the target set in 1965. Already by 1973 the construction industry will have completed their changeover. By 1975 the engineering industry will be 75% metric. Most industrial materials are already available in metric. Examples are steel, non-ferrous metals, timber, building materials. If you're responsible for your firm's future you need to know about metrication. To help your changeover the Metrication Board has published a ten-point Check List for Managers. A step-by-step leaflet advising you how to arrange your metrication programme to get the maximum benefit at the minimum cost. Send for the Check List today. Please place my company on your mailing list for regular publications and send me “Going Metric-Check List for Managers.” Type of Business Name Position Company Address SD 1 Send to: Information Office, Metrication Board, 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Trump's tariffs force Canada's lumber industry to switch to metric system
YouTube video by Global News
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January 6, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Today marks the 200th anniversary of the end of the traditional ale pint 🍺.

Imperial measures led to a reduction in the size of a #pint of #beer, from about 578 ml to about 568 ml.

#metric #metrication #OTD

Our latest blog article:

The end of the traditional pint
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A traditional glass mug of beer
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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"The public will not be forced to buy a 568ml beverage at the bar or from their local corner shop."

Good to hear that no one will be "forced to buy" anything if they go into a bar. Bottled beer is sold in #metric of course.

The British pint protected from going metric
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Alpacas, buses and pints: Five laws you may have missed in 2025
More than 30 new laws have been created this year, including these lesser-known bits of legislation.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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@ukma.org.uk The only Metric Highway in the US may be no more.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8wm...
America's only metric highway could soon be no more | Here's why
YouTube video by THV11
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December 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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peter56k.bsky.social
The conversion to ⁰F is unnecessary; please stop pandering to people who refuse to adopt the metric system.
December 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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🎄 🎅 Merry Christmas 🎁 🎄

A metric-size Robertson's Christmas Pudding 🥳

400 g METRIC PACK - circa 1980

#ChristmasPudding #metricpack #metrication #metric #metricsystem #Christmas
A Robertson's Christmas Pudding in its box 400 g METRIC PACK circa 1980
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social Old UK Print Ads 70s/80s/90s @oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social · Mar 6
Mar 1976: Metric Units ad from The Metrication Board

(+Metres; Litres; and Kilograms)
This advert is from the Metrication Board in London about how to use metric units. It explains the different units of measurement for lengths, liquids, and weights.
December 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I’m truly disappointed with #M&S. After years of displaying sizes in both imperialist and metric units, the company has reverted to displaying only imperialist.
December 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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A switch to #metric speed limits would allow all speed limits to be reviewed at no extra cost.

#metricsystem #metrication #speedlimit
jeremyandstormon5.bsky.social Jeremy Vine & Daytime on 5 @jeremyandstormon5.bsky.social · Dec 22
Should the national speed limit be increased?

It's 60 years today since the national speed limit on motorways was set to 70mph.

Cars are arguably safer, and our motorways are much more advanced.

But would you want to see the speed limit on motorways increased?
December 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A bad day at the office for U.N.I.T.'s science team?

• They mistake a latitude of "0.1667° S" as being NORTH of the Equator.
• They've seemingly never heard of METRES.
• The scales on their dual-unit pressure meter don't align.

#TheWarBetween #DoctorWho #metric

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Four images from Episode 2 of the mini-series "The War Between the Land and the Sea". 1. The kPa and psi scales on U.N.I.T.'s pressure meter don't align. The pressures shown on each scale don't correspond. 2. A latitude of "0.1667° S" is mistaken as being "North of the Equator". 3. U.N.I.T.'s scientific advisers are puzzled by a depth coordinate given in metres. "What's m?", one of them asks. 4. The Sea Devil named Salt explains that it is "Your metric unit for length and depth".
December 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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#OTD On this day 55 years ago, the Government postponed the introduction of #metric speed limits 🚗, previously scheduled for 1973.

#metrication #metricsystem

Our latest blog article: Metric speed limits – 55 years of dilly-dallying

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DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT PRESS NOTICE 9 December 1970 NO SPEED LIMIT METRICATION Speed limits on Britain's roads are not to be metricated in 1973, as had been planned by the previous administration, and the Government has no alternative date in mind. This was announced today by Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, answering a Question in the House of Commons. Mr Kenneth Warren MP asked for an estimate of the cost involved in alterations to vehicles and road signs of all kinds if metric distances and speed measurements were introduced in this country. Mr Peyton replied: "Nearly £2m for speed limit signs: the Government have, however, decided that speed limits will not be made metric in 1973 and have no alternative date in mind." In March 1969, Mr Richard Marsh, then Minister of Transport, in a statement on speed limit policy in Parliament, announced that, subject to further consultation, speed limits would be metricated in 1973. This was in the context of the former administration's intention to metricate the economy by 1975. Following this announcement, planning took place with local authorities on the best way to implement the change; but no new speed limit signs in metric terms have yet been put up. The metrication of other road signs to show distances, dimensions etc in metric terms had not yet reached the planning stage. The question of speeds and distances being expressed in metric terms will be considered again when it is seen to what extent metrication as a whole is accepted by the public, but this will not be for some years.
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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jeffabraham.bsky.social
Goddammit people, the metric system is right there.

This article reads like the author very recently wrote an article about a small species of rhino and couldn't believe their luck.
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Can we have an option for wind speed in standard metric units please (metres per second and km/h).

FUN FACT: The Met Office officially adopted metres per second for wind speed (along with mm for rainfall, and millibars for surface air pressure) on 1 May 1914.
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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mfturcotte.bsky.social
you are using the metric system for temperature and distance (visibility in km) but MPH for winds?
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The contestants' words both had five letters. But the best word had six.

It pays to #ThinkMetric

📺 🔠 ⏲️ #countdown #channel4

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Countdown - first shown 14 November 2025 on Channel 4. METRIC was the best word in this round.
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Our latest blog article ⚖️:

"Why can I not record my cat’s weight as five pounds?"

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November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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rhyddian.bsky.social
Went on Facebook for a few mins tonight. First thing I saw was this...

No comment necessary, I imagine.
A pic of a road sign - probably generated with AI by Russian trolls trying to engage aged members of our society into thinking there are problems where none exist - showing a bridge height as 2.1m and the 6'-88" (sic), accompanied by a headline above asking, "Why attempt to decimalise an imperial unit?" adding the inflammatory, "This sign is all kinds of wrong." Presumably, designed to enrage irrational boomers harking back to a nonexistent golden era past pre the metric system which, incidentally, came into usage in the UK in 1971, 54 years ago FFS.
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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For a TV show @qi.com in 2025 to be using #inches to measure a wavelength in the millimetre-to-metre range is #QuiteInteresting.

FUN FACT: Since the first UK radio stations began broadcasting in the 1920s, wavelengths have been given in #metres.

#metricsystem #SI #QI

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Screenshots with subtitles from Episode 4 of Series W of QI, first broadcast on 11 November 2025. They show a complete jumble of measurements units being used, with a wavelength in the millimetre-to-metre range being described using using inches.
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Fun fact: Before Europe went metric in the 1870s, Norwegian, Swedish, Amsterdamse, Preussian, Bavarian, Saxon, Württemberg, Viennese and imperial feet and inches were all different.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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The roadworks signs say yards, but the actual distances are in metres.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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johnhyphen.bsky.social
fascinated by the editorial choices around the use of the metric system or not
irish times article saying ukraine's drones hit plant 1300 km inside russia irish examiner article saying ukraine's drones hit plant 800 miles inside russia
November 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM