Your snow | Michael Tomasky

When I read on the quiz comments thread last Friday that you were expecting 25cm of snow Saturday, it didn't quite sink on me that that's roughly 10 inches. We talk inches in America. Centimeters sound so small, it just didn't occur to me that any amount of centimeters could really add up to a debilitating snow.

For the record, an inch is 2.54 centimeters. Here is a conversion web site. Although in his column today, our redoubtable Michael White uses inches and feet too:

That, of course, is one reason why we're hearing so much about the bad weather, leading the TV bulletins and the newspapers. One inch of snow on the BBC TV Centre here in west London is equivalent to two feet on Aberdeen. We had a rare three and a half inches around here on Saturday morning and it's still on the ground.

So what gives here? And by the way what about this recipe business? Can't you people use teaspoons and tablespoons and ounces like the rest of us?!?

Anyway I'm writing this mostly to create a comment thread in which you can all share your snow stories of the weekend (Americans too - we had our rough spots), and to say to everyone on both (or even all) continents that I hope you're getting around all right.

WeatherMichael Tomasky
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