Still Snowing
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004Today is a week of bad weather. Despite the cancellations on Saturday night we had two unexpected guests, a dentist and a veterinarian from the Bologna area. Needless to say they didn’t make it very far up the Grandes Jorasses and they were back in bed when we got up in the morning. It has been snowing lightly for three days. Last night the temperature dropped to almost -3°C (26.6°F). To convert from degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit you follow the very simple formula: °C9/5+32=°F. I’ll let you use the new formula to figure out the daytime temp which has rarely gone above 3°C. Most of our thermometers are in Celsius. The only thermometer we have in °F is our meat thermometer, which I bought in the US because here in Italy they cost a fortune.
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