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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by StavrosK on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:01AM (#12643398)
"Oh wow, air pressure fell to almost zero, a person would suffocate in ther... Wait a minute, the ground unit is 940! This is a 6% difference!"
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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by zaroth on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @09:53AM (#12643778)
Sometimes ground units reflect ground truths, even if the scale doesn't actually hit zero.
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Re:The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over a weath... by thomasahle on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:59PM (#12647809)
Yup, this is also why I like the metric version. With inches of quicksilver it's hard to know where zero is.
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