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The usual conversion should be from a U.S. customary unit (feet) to a metric unit of similar scale (meters), in all cases of length. It doesn't make much sense to display conversions to units in the same system of measurements. A slightly more extreme example of the values present in the article
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demonstrate this; waves of 15 ft (4.6 m) is a much more sensible conversion than 15 ft (180 in). Personally, I would convert one foot to 0.3 meters, so as to keep the units consistent for larger values of feet.
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Why is the history for an extratropical cyclone it's "meteorological synopsis", and the history of a tropical cyclone it's "meteorological history"?
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Should we convert from one foot to the equivalent in centimeters (as in
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