I have always assumed that the cricket thermometer was just an urban legend or wive’s tale. The story goes that the temperature can be measured by counting the rate at which crickets make their clicks. The basic principle behind it is that the rate of a cricket’s clicks will increase when the temperature rises.
I was browsing through snopes and found an article about this. The people over at snopes have found evidence of a correlation between temperature and the rate of cricket click.
The formula for this correlation is endorsed by The Farmer’s Almanac and was recently confirmed by Dr. Peggy LeMone, on her blog.
Temp in degrees F = (# clicks over 13 seconds) + 40
Pretty simple eh?
Here is the snopes article, where I started reading up on this. I am pretty anxious to try this myself, but I guess I am going to have to wait until next summer to see this for myself.
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