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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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you are using the metric system for temperature and distance (visibility in km) but MPH for winds?
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
you are using the metric system for temperature and distance (visibility in km) but MPH for winds?
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MYTH: NASA didn't use the #metric system to go to the Moon
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November 12, 2025 at 10:16 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
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.
Road designers and contractors use metric. The distance marker posts at the side of motorways are at 100m intervals, which aid contractors when installing roadworks signs. It doesn't make much sense to still be using yards on the signs themselves.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Road designers and contractors use metric. The distance marker posts at the side of motorways are at 100m intervals, which aid contractors when installing roadworks signs. It doesn't make much sense to still be using yards on the signs themselves.
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The roadworks signs say yards, but the actual distances are in metres.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The roadworks signs say yards, but the actual distances are in metres.
The roadworks signs say yards, but the actual distances are in metres.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The roadworks signs say yards, but the actual distances are in metres.
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I work with these type of measurements in my work but not in Imperial, no one on the planet, except the US, use Imperial in the design & construction industry. We use it then the press realase convert it back to Imperial. Pathetic really seeing the UK are a metric country officially. 🙄
October 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I work with these type of measurements in my work but not in Imperial, no one on the planet, except the US, use Imperial in the design & construction industry. We use it then the press realase convert it back to Imperial. Pathetic really seeing the UK are a metric country officially. 🙄
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I am in my 50s and was never taught the imperial system at school. Why on earth is the transition to metric taking so long. It's got to be holding the country back.
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I am in my 50s and was never taught the imperial system at school. Why on earth is the transition to metric taking so long. It's got to be holding the country back.
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If we had just actually properly kept on with the original plan of going fully metric (like the rest of the British Commonwealth did), we wouldn’t even have this crazy problem… @ukma.org.uk
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If we had just actually properly kept on with the original plan of going fully metric (like the rest of the British Commonwealth did), we wouldn’t even have this crazy problem… @ukma.org.uk
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This can still happen though, as the pressure for England to reduce urban speed limits is not going away.
#Metric speed limits also have the added benefit that they provide highway authorities with a greater range of available speed limits to choose from.
#Metric speed limits also have the added benefit that they provide highway authorities with a greater range of available speed limits to choose from.
October 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This can still happen though, as the pressure for England to reduce urban speed limits is not going away.
#Metric speed limits also have the added benefit that they provide highway authorities with a greater range of available speed limits to choose from.
#Metric speed limits also have the added benefit that they provide highway authorities with a greater range of available speed limits to choose from.