[°F] = [°C] × 9/5 + 32 Conversion charts and other things

From kindergarten all the way through high school, there are all kinds of things we're told we will need to know in later life.  Any savvy teenager will tell you that they are sure they will never use algebra or calculus once they graduate, I know I'd said as much, and as far as I know, I was right.  (Although I wasn't paying enough attention and could be using algebra or calculus somewhere in my life and just don't know it.)  But these Fahrenheit to Celsius or Centigrade temperature conversions?  If you're going to spend any amount of time out of the US, you'd definitely want to try to retain these.  And the metric system while you are at it, but that is another entry. 

It's funny to hear people talking about the scorcher at 36 degrees or checking the temperature gauge in the car and seeing it read 38.  Ha!  I can handle that!  All that time spent in Boston and New York.  I got this!  But check this, 36 degrees, a temperature I have come to know and fear as it posts in our daily weather report online, is 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit.  And I see that reading every morning when we are still just preparing for the heat of the day.  Throw in some direct sun and humidity, with air conditioning only in the bedrooms at home, spotty even in restaurants and some grocery stores, electricity expensive and also temperamental, and there is no safe place from the heat.  Maybe the car.

And don't you know it, today I went for a walk on the boardwalk on the South Coast near Accra Beach because I had been looking for the thing for so long that when I saw it, I said, heat index be damned.  My friend Karl and I pushed the girls in their respective strollers, covered with sunshades, for as long as we could stand and then took the girls for ice cream at Chilly Moos Ice Cream Treatery.  Their second time in two days.

I still can't keep the conversion equation in my head, one more thing to jangle around in there, but I do know this, 36 degrees equals hot.  37 degrees equals hot.  38 degrees, well that's hot.  And Barbados in August, Fahrenheit or Celsius, is melting that thermometer.


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