I don't "do" centigrade, or metres or kilograms for that matter, I'm a
strictly pre-decimal girl, apart from money that is!  I have to change
the settings on the computer at work back into inches if I'm not at my
own desk and when I get weighed at the docs I have to ask him to
translate, I'm useless!

Marcia

I was going to say the same thing.  I don't know Fahrenheit, but using
Julie's handy dandy xmas card insert, I see that it's 26C.  That's not
hot!  At all!  I would be wearing jeans and a t-shirt.  35C is normal
here, that's 95F.  That's hot.
Speaking of metric vs. imperial, I'm metric all the way except for
weights, I have to have in lbs and people's heights too.  Strange,
because I grew up in Germany until I was 10, but then in Canada after
that.  I guess I just got used to having people say they weigh 130 lbs
and are 5 foot 6 tall or whatever!

But it's so simple and logical! O C is the temperature at which water
freezes, at 100 C water boils. Normal human temperature is around 36.5.

I don't think it's just older people, when I here children talking about
weights and measures they use the same units as their parents. Still usually
imperial.

I live in England.  I prefer to think of it as a temperate climate ;-)  We
rarely get extreme highs or lows so we aren't used to it.  80F is pretty hot
here,  I like it at about 72!  The highest temperature I've ever known where
I live is 95F (for one day only) and the lowest -16C for two days.

See, I am still doing the F above freezing and the C below!  I can visualise
it better like that.

 >In

It's all relative.  I went to Germany to visit my friend Nüle in August 2003
and I nearly fried, it was in the mid 90's every day.  I wondered if they
were having a heatwave, but apparently not, it's normal.
OTOH their winters are dire.  Up neck in snow for months.  There were posts
on the side of the roads every few yards with fluorescent markings on.  On
one side the markings were spots, and on the other side, diagonal lines.  I
asked what they were for.
"Oh, they are so you know where you are on the road when we have winter.."
said N.
One time when she was here, we had snow.  It's a really big deal here and it
was on the TV news, it always is, even though we get some every year we act
like we are surprised by it and traffic slows almost to a standstill.
Well, she just laughed and laughed at the thought that snow was a newsworthy
item.

I suspected that your British friend would like a minimum/maximum
thermometer.  We Brits are obsessive about weather because it's hardly the
same from one day to another and it's a huge topic of conversation.  In
Germany, apparently they describe a bore as "someone who likes to talk about
the weather" but I've had to alert N to the fact that for a Brit, it's
compulsory!
Rains a lot, though here though..mud, mud, mud here at present. Cat
footprints everywhere.  Windowsills, chair throws, floors all have muddy cat
prints on.  Can't be helped.  I cleaned up yesterday.  Pointless until the
weather improves.

Tweed