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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..
As dxb has said, the Poms have no systems for dealing with bad weather worth the mention, yet every time I've been here in winter it's been the same old story: Snow, chaos. Snow lying, absolute chaos.
We've only had snow lying twice - and that the merest sprinkling - here in the Midlands. There seems to be some rule that says that if there is snow in the fields on the side of the road - even if it's only a light dusting - all the traffic slows down as if the drivers are all expecting 20ft snowdrifts around the corner.
And when it snows everyone says to me "Oh, you antipodeans must really feel the cold here!" I reply "It's a bit parky, but I haven't had to shovel the snow off my driveway yet, and I haven't had to move the "Road Closed" signs so I can get out of my street." They think I'm joking, but!
- Pfranz
All I can say is that I'm very glad I wasn't trying to drive on I-94 near Lake Michigan yesterday.
* ALL atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale)."
Absolute zero rules, OK?
* ALL atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale)."
As an occasional wannabe ramasseur des poux de tete, I should point out that "absolute zero on the Kelvin scale" is technically incorrect. Absolute zero is simply 0° on the Kelvin scale. To say "absolute zero on the Kelvin scale" would, at the least be a redundancy.
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