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Tell the Temperature by Listening to the Chirping of a Cricket

Posted in UUF by Dan at 9:02 am
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This is no joke. You can actually tell the outside temperature by listening to the chirping of a cricket, because the frequency of chirping varies according to temperature. To get a rough estimate of the temperature in degrees fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37. The number you get will be an approximation of the outside temperature.

3 Responses to “Tell the Temperature by Listening to the Chirping of a Cricket”

  1. Benjamin A. Wendelboe says:
    6/8/2007 at 9:12 am

    I like the “related articles”..

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    =)

  2. jeremiah johnson says:
    6/8/2007 at 10:31 am

    Are there people that don’t know this? I’m 32 and I was doing this when I was seven or eight years old.

    I can’t listen to the audio, but if i recall, you count the number of cricket chirps in 60 seconds, and add 15 to it to get the temperature in Fahrenheit. If my memory is not lying to me, that’s how I did it.

  3. SamuelDr says:
    6/8/2007 at 11:58 am

    And what do we do, metric fools?

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