{"id":8590,"date":"2016-10-09T21:14:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T01:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8590"},"modified":"2016-10-09T21:14:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T01:14:53","slug":"crickets-are-natural-thermometers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/crickets-are-natural-thermometers\/","title":{"rendered":"Crickets are natural thermometers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that you can use cricket and katydid chirps to estimate the temperature? \u00a0Dolbear\u2019s Law is the formula from the late 19th century that can be used to accurately estimate the temperature based on the number of chirps a cricket emits. \u00a0Basically, crickets chirp faster when it is warm than when it is cool. \u00a0It also depends on the species of cricket, which I did not know before I read this article. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the formula: \u201cCount how many chirps the cricket makes in 14 seconds. Add 40 to the average number of chirps in 14 seconds. This equation (which is one of the oldest and easiest to use cricket-thermometer equations) is published in the Farmers\u2019 Almanac. It should give you the approximate temperature in degrees F.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Amos Emerson Dolbear and his discovery at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sciencevibe.com\/2016\/09\/20\/the-forgotten-man-who-discovered-crickets-were-natural-thermometers\/\">https:\/\/sciencevibe.com\/2016\/09\/20\/the-forgotten-man-who-discovered-crickets-were-natural-thermometers\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8659\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/katydid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8659\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/katydid-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"Katydid.  Source: dw_ross via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/katydid-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/katydid-161x138.jpg 161w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/katydid.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katydid. Source: dw_ross via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that you can use cricket and katydid chirps to estimate the temperature? \u00a0Dolbear\u2019s Law is the formula from the late 19th century that can be used to accurately estimate the temperature based on the number of chirps a cricket emits. \u00a0Basically, crickets chirp faster when it is warm than when it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-history","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8660,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions\/8660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}