Talk:1963 United Kingdom cold wave

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[edit] Anachronistic measurements

Is it anachronistic for the article to discuss depths in metres and temperatures in C (as first choices) when 1963 England would have referred to feet and F? --Dweller 11:39, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

It's not anachronistic because, although forecasts and press releases for the general public used Fahrenheit, I think the Met Office was already using metric units internally. Besides, I don't see any need for the artiicle to use units current in 1963, so long as the conversions to modern units are accurate. The article needs a lot of work for other reasons, though I've corrected some of the inaccuracies. JH (talk page) 19:40, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

I'm not very happy with the title "1963 United Kingdom cold wave", since "cold wave" is very much an American term and one that is rarely if ever used in the UK. JH (talk page) 17:43, 22 January 2008 (UTC)