WCAX-TV Weatherman Erases Subzero Cold With Alternate Temperature Scale

One day last week, weatherman Gary Sadowski at WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vermont sensed viewers were sick of the daily grind of waking up to see more subzero cold.  Bundle up!

Temperatures Thursday morning in northern Vermont
New Hampshire and New York. The numbers are
correct. This is just in the Kelvin temperature scale. 

Sadowski solved the problem by just going to a different, warmer looking temperature scale.

So, Thursday morning, it was 252 in Burlington, Vermont, 246 in Morrisville, Vermont and a cooler, more comfortable 241 degrees in Saranac Lake, N.Y.

Sadowski used the Kelvin Scale, in which absolute zero, the coldest it can ever theoretically get in the universe, is the number 0.

Such big numbers on the Kelvin scale might have warmed viewers a bit.

But of course people got a cold slap of reality when they stepped out their doors after watching Sadowski's weather forecast. In the more familiar Fahrenheit scale, it was 6 below in Burlington, minus 17 in Morrisville, and a numbing 26 below in Saranac Lake.

Let's hope Sadowski doesn't resort to the Kelvin scale in the heat of summer. He'll really make us fee roasted. That's because 95 degrees Fahrenheit is 308 degrees on the Kelvin scale.