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The USA uses metric all over the place. Everybody knows how big 2L is. Syringes are all marked in mL or cc. Socket wrenches come with 1/2, 9/16, 5/8 etc. but al
by supportlocal4h 4y ago
The USA uses metric all over the place. Everybody knows how big 2L is. Syringes are all marked in mL or cc. Socket wrenches come with 1/2, 9/16, 5/8 etc. but also 9, 10, 11. Athletes no longer run 100-yard dash. The "400" is 400m. Cars have 1.8L engines. People wear size 30 footwear, but also size 7.
Yes, the USA uses inches and pounds and gallons. They also use m, g, and L. And picas and fingers and miles and decibles and watts and joules. Mostly they don't know or care. If they do know and care, they are usually capable of using whichever unit gets the job done.
- cratermoon 4y agoTry finding the weather in metric, though. Everything – temperature, windspeed (miles per hour, unless it's an offshore report, then it's knots), atmospheric pressure, wave heights, precipitation amounts and rate, and so on – is US customary.
- School-Cotton 4y agoLuckily you can now check the weather on your phone, and I suspect more people do so nowadays than getting it from TV or newspapers. And it’s easy to set any weather app to use international units.
- cratermoon 4y agoAbsolutely. I was speaking of the official NWS reports, which are still in US customary.