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Monday 9 January 2017

SLJ - D4A1

Weather for Mexico City

4 comments:

  1. Hi Olivia!

    Excellent work. Thank you for completing this task!

    Do you know the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius? I don't know if you're interested, but I have a little story a out the difference if you want to read it.

    A long time ago, a Polish scientist invented the scale of Fahrenheit, using equal parts salt and water to make the temperature of 0 degrees on the thermometer (which was a 200 year old invention at that point, but he made a new version which used mercury - which made it more accurate). Then he used the average human temperature to make the high point of 96 degrees. And that is how the thermometer was marked so people could say what the temperature was. Sounds a bit strange, right?

    Celsius, our measurement, was made because a scientist thought 'Fahrenheit is illogical. Salt water, human body heat? What do they have to do with anything? Why don't we just use the freezing and boiling points of something easy, like water?' and so he made ANOTHER scale on thermometers called degrees Celsius!

    And that's what we use today! So, 0 degree Celsius is when it is so cold that water freezes, and 100 degrees Celsius is when water boils. Cool eh? In Fahrenheit those are 32 and 212. Such random numbers!

    I know that the website probably automatically went to Fahrenheit because it is an American one, but there will be a button you can hit next time to change it.

    Anyways! Keep up the great work! I hope my little story was interesting!

    Kia kaha,

    Mark

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  2. Hi Mark and Olivia,

    Thanks for the explanation about the differences between Fahrenheit and Celsius, Mark. That is really helpful! I have always wondered why there are two different systems for measuring temperature and now I know why.

    In Canada (my home country), they use the same system as New Zealand and report temperatures in degrees Celsius. According to my mom it was -15 degrees in Ontario, Canada today. Yikes! That is pretty cold! All of the children were playing in the snow and going for a skate on an ice rink in town. Have you ever had the chance to try ice skating, Olivia?

    It's pretty hard! I used to skate when I was younger but I would often fall down on the ice. It took a long time to get better but, fortunately, I kept on trying until I managed to figure it out. Perseverance paid off!

    I hope that you have a lovely evening with your family, Olivia.

    See you online again soon!

    Cheers,
    Rachel

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  3. Hello there Oliva,

    I'm Von a year 7 student from S.P.X school. WoW! It seems to me the weather in mexico looks just right!.. Sunny days is my favourite days. A raining,snowy and windy day is not a happy day for me.. Anyways well done for finishing this task and I hope you continue to finish the other task too!

    Great work and keep up the amazing posts
    Von,

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  4. Hello there Oliva,

    nice blogging hope you are having a good holiday with you family

    keep up the great work

    Jahzara

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