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The Cicadas are Coming!

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While we did not see nor hear a single 17-year cicada, on Friday night we heard the annual cicadas for the first time this summer.

It always as indicated that summer is shifting into the end of July and the beginning of August when we hear those suckers for several weeks. They'll be followed by crickets and earlier sunsets and in six weeks or so the first hints of autumn will start to appear.
 
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Who needs cicadas when you have crickets?

This year the crickets are louder than I've ever heard them where we live. If a cicada is like a percussion instrument, and gets boring pretty quickly since it never varies the rhythm, crickets are like strings: even if they play a simple tune, I could listen to it for hours.
 
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FreshFish said:
Who needs cicadas when you have crickets?

This year the crickets are louder than I've ever heard them where we live. If a cicada is like a percussion instrument, and gets boring pretty quickly since it never varies the rhythm, crickets are like strings: even if they play a simple tune, I could listen to it for hours.
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From the Old Farmer's Almanac...
To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit, count number of chirps in 14 seconds then add 40 to get temperature.

To convert cricket chirps to degrees Celsius, count number of chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3, then add 4 to get temperature.
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joecct said:
From the Old Farmer's Almanac...To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit, count number of chirps in 14 seconds then add 40 to get temperature.
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Have you ever tried this in practice? if it is 82[SUP]o[/SUP] F that is three chirps per second (42 chirps in 14 seconds). The trick for me would be to be able to hear one cricket in isolation as there is a regular chorus all going at once.
 
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I recall a correlation between chirp-rate and temperature taught to me when I was MUCH younger, and also recall confirmation of this age-old-knowledge, however I do not remember the <U>exact</U> details. It was much simpler than the Farmer’s Almanac sited by Joe though (ie - no math)... something like the number of chirps in 30 seconds equates to the Fahrenheit temperature. Although for a valid temperature reading, the key is finding a properly-calibrated cricket. :D
 
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Transplanted Tiger Fan said:
I recall a correlation between chirp-rate and temperature taught to me when I was MUCH younger, and also recall confirmation of this age-old-knowledge, however I do not remember the <U>exact</U> details. It was much simpler than the Farmer’s Almanac sited by Joe though (ie - no math)... something like the number of chirps in 30 seconds equates to the Fahrenheit temperature. Although for a valid temperature reading, the key is finding a properly-calibrated cricket. :D
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Or a thermometer. I hear they work pretty well.
 
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