Snow

what snow?

There it goes again, see?

eh?

grrrrrr... can't it wait until my new winter boots arrive!

they have been despatched today! come oooon boots! snow delay til wednesday!

And the hell begins....

Less than an inch of snow has fallen. I don't think that counts as hell.

boots have arrived i am happy for snow to fall now

I really hope that it melts soon.

According to the met office, there'll be heavy snow tonight, light snow tomorrow, and it'll struggle to make it close to a positive temperature (In centigrade)although you argue whether or not 0 is to be considered positive number. So no, I can't see it melting soon.

I thought 0 was neither positive nor negative. I guess it is usually included in the natural numbers...

Oh, and degrees centigrade is a useless statement. centigrade just means graduations where the "whole" has 100; and degrees is the unit attributed to a count. Thus there is no actual reference to temperature in the statement. It is either degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit or degrees Kelvin (though the latter is a bit odd to use in everyday conversation).

Except that centigrade used in such a context can be equivalent of Celsius, with 100 graduations between the extremes of the liquid state of water. It's all to do with context, and in this case is often an acceptable substitute.

Warmer weekend! ^_^

I was not doubting its extensive use to the extent that it has been added to the dictionary, I was arguing that based on the roots of the word, that it is utterly meaningless (and bordering on tautologically redundant as a word in itself) especially for its temperature application. You could quite easily argue that the centimetre or decagram are synonymous with centigrade.

Surely a word on the lines of centicaloraquagrade would be better if you are basing the word of the unit on its definition (I did think about suggesting centihydrothermograde using the more common roots for 'water' and 'temperature' but the tiny amount of research I did suggested I would be mixing latin and greek roots, which I keep hearing is a bad thing - linguists please correct me here). Of course, in the interests of allowing less of a mouthful, how about calorgrade? (aquagrade wouldn't have any reference to temperature again).

Shy of inventing new words, basing the name on the person who did the work on it makes sense, so will people kindly stop using that ridiculous synonym please?

/pet hate

Tim, you've just hit about 80 centigrades of anger

I put my boots on an it started snowing, and now that I'm back home, it's stopped.
Damn you weather.

Is the snow starting to haunt you like the rain did a few years ago?

are you sure it was that long ago?

yep, I was at Sowood street at the time

that is crazy.

Some people may find this quite interesting.

Horizon: What is One Degree?