No! No! No! “add 32” is for Centigrade to Fahrenheit!
. End of grumpy voice.
One of the reasons for longer sector times was that the Hastings had to be flown around mountains instead of just ignoring them. You probably remember flogging down the Rhone/Saone corridor or popping out into the Mediterranean through the Carcassone Gap over near Spain, which made it a long way to Luqa, El Adem, or Nicosia.