re: Spalding
i always thing of this as a NY state town, famous for the sports equipment company of the same name, and the small pink hand balls they made (the in NYC were called spaldeens-- the "eens" at the end being a curious coruption, arise from the irish influence in NY -een being a diminute ending for small.. so Maura as child would be Maureen, and Margaret went through several changes to Maggy then Peggy, and Peggeen, (think of Great Expectation) .
there is also a Spalding in MI-- i think--Sparteye has pointed out in the past how many Upstate NYers moved to MI, and took their home town names with them. (or it just might be that, at the same time Sparteye was posting that, there was a regular poster with a family name of Spalding...i am not tracing throught all the thread to clear it up...)
But don't the prevailing winds move from the West to the east at that latitude? and wouldn't matter more what was to the west of Spalding?
(not much, and certainly not any mountains that i know of, there is the atlantic, and /or artic ocean (depending, i don't have my atlas handy, and can place lincolnshire on the east coast of UK, and even know that it has a town of Boston, and an even smaller town of Kettlethrop on the coast, in the Fens-- but i don't now the topography of UK well enough to know what is west of it..Yorkshire, i think... and Yorkshire has hills..)
Not that breezes from the North atlantic and or Artic ocean would be tropical in nature!
as for C to F conversions, i know freezing, (0--32, and body tempature (36--98) and boiling, (100--212) and find these three are reasonable reference points..
there are very few times i need to exactly convert...(but 28--82 is a hand one to remember as is 16--61, they do mark a very comfortable weather temperature range..
