Myth: Measursing Temperature by a Cricket Chirp

First of all I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! For your Monday after Thanksgiving, we are going to talk about Crickets!

Myth: By counting the amount of times a cricket chirps, this will then correlate to the current temperature outside.

 Result: Yes! May not always be exact but they are usually within one or two degrees of the current temperature.

The Science: The frequency of the cricket chirp can be correlated to the current temperature. The more frequent you hear the chirp outside the warm it is. To get a rough estimate of the current temperature by the frequency of cricket chirps. First count how many chirps you hear in a 15 second time span. Then take that number and add 37 to it. That will give you the temperature outside. Or if you aren't a math wiz just count how many chirps you hear in the 15 minute time span and put that number into the Cricket Converter courtesy of NOAA and it will do the math for you! Who said bugs weren't smart!

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