The National Weather Service makes an April Fools joke

[jlw]

Originally published at: The National Weather Service makes an April Fools joke | Boing Boing

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[Papasan]

I will continue to shake my fist at the sky when it rains.

[atteSmythe]

Kelvin is just Celsius with fancy pants.

This is exactly the kind of April Fools joke I can get behind.

[bluehenbear]

I think the joke would’ve been sufficient to just use Celcius. To avoid SI units they should’ve gone to Rankine.

[generic_name]

April 1st is the day I look in the mirror and reckon with the fact that my life IS the joke.

[Otherbrother]

@bluehenbear

I think the joke would’ve been sufficient to just use Celcius.

What about the Delisle scale? The inversion that gives warmer temps lower numbers would be extra fun.

Delisle scale

[GilbertWham]

They really should, though

[Deathfaces]

GOP’d get in there like, “BuT WhAt BaThRoOm WiLl ThEy UsE?!?!”

[blackeye]

Talk about global warming.

(Riffing on how much more light we get with Daylight time.)

[nixiebunny]

Sorry, I see too many Kelvin thermometers on our radio telescope receivers for this to be difficult to parse.

(I designed the stuff below the thermometers, that controls the receiver devices.)

[MagicFox]

Or in Scoville Heat Units. That’d be fun to convert.

[Chuckles]

I, for one, welcome my new overlord, Kelvin.

[Jesse13927]

Give us the temperature as a percentage of the surface temperature of the sun, you cowards!

[vernonbird]

It’s good thing they didn’t use something like this:

[hecep]

@nixiebunny

(I designed the stuff below the thermometers, that controls the receiver devices.)

Your ‘children’ look beautiful… and so well organized! You are blessed.

[MerelyGifted]

[Steve]

I’m rankin this tweet amongst their best.

[FGD135]

@atteSmythe

Kelvin is just Celsius with fancy pants.

This needs to be on coffee mugs and t-shirts.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

0K, boomer.