Dave Hill wrote in
:

Here in the Swansea area of South Wales the temp went down to 28f
overnight.
Yesterday it was bright and sunny and got up to 38f, leting me lift
some of the tree dahlias, but there are still around 50 left in the
ground, and the frost is getting further into the ground, I don't
know how many I will be able to save.

How do you cope with the TV weather forecasts that give temperatures
in Celsius? --

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Celcius?
What ever happened to centigrade?

The difference between degrees Celsius and degrees centigrade is that one
is the name of the person who invented the scale (in which water freezes at
0° and boils at 100°), and the other describes the scale ("centigrade"
means "100 divisions").
The other difference is that "Celsius" is considered correct. "Centigrade"
was an older, and I think almost exclusively American, way of referring to
the scale. Because we call the Fahrenheit scale after its inventor, to be
consistent we should refer to the Celsius scale after its inventor.

I copied this from a book so dont blame me with its lengthy text.

Baz