Entire UK facing gales and downpours as Storm Isha blows in

[BarnBrian]

Aren't US inches smaller..or something similar?

The yanks use tape measures with 10 increments to a foot in pipe laying offshore.

 

[Weatherman]

We recently had a post about a survey carried out where the majority of UK citizens would like to stick with metric. Why, when I switch on BBC news they are forecasting gusts of wind at 50MPH?

Because MPH is greater than KTS and sounds more dramatic/significant. All about the spin….

 

[Rodcx500z]

Only by a bugs knob

 

[Rodcx500z]

I was watching deep dive on yt earlier and low and behold Alex Deakin informed the world, in the last 20 year we have only had winds over 90 mph 24 times, and 11 in the last 10 years, so media blowing up a storm again.

Were are all the doomsayers, or is it all a myth. answers on a post card

 

[Spike.]

Aren't US inches smaller..or something similar?

Until WW2 the US inch was smaller. They came together in the war presumably to help our war effort, as in the Pacard built
Merlin engine.