How to gauge the temperature using crickets.

Crickets like it warm. And the warmer it gets, the faster they chirp. A gentleman by the name of Amos Dolbear noticed this fact back in 1898. He came up with a cricket chirping temperature formula, which is know as Dolbears Law. The equation is as follows: T = 50 + (N - 40) / 4, where T = temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and N = number of chirps per minute. If that seems like...
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