Have you ever set outside in the late evening and listened to the relaxing sound of crickets chirping? Well did you know that when the crickets are chirping it can also tell you what the temperature is outside? It’s true!
Crickets chirp faster when it is warm outside and when it is colder crickets will chirp slower.
The easy rule of thumb is to count however many times the crickets chirp as fast as you can in 14 seconds and add 40 to the resulting number that you have counted. The result will be the temperature in Fahrenheit of whereever the crickets are located.
Crickets are cold blooded and adapt to the temperature of their surroundings.
In 1897, a scientist named Amos Dolbear published an article “The Cricket as a Thermometer” which noted the correlation between the rate of the crickets chirp and the ambient temperature.
Gracie Latrelle 