Is it just a myth?
2007-04-13 11:16:34 · 6 answers · asked by SR 2 in Environment
I'm not sure anyone thinks that crickets can predict the weather, but they change the rate of their chirps with different temperatures. That's not a prediction; that's a thermometer!
Supposedly, you can count the number of chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds and add 37. That gives you a ballpark estimate of the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
2007-04-13 11:21:28 · answer #1 · answered by ecolink 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hold on...Let me ask my cricket........Well, he just told me that there is a 30% chance of rain with light drizzle in the early morning and to expect winds of about 10-15 mph from the west by 6pm Sunday evening, otherwise a pleasant sunny day of around 75F....Do you want the 5 day extended forecast? (NOTE: the cricket will have to know what state and city you live in)
2007-04-13 11:33:03 · answer #2 · answered by 951 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crickets know all. For example, if you count the average number of churps per hour and multiply it by the square root of the cosmological constant it will equal tomorrow's Dow Jones Industrial Average.
2007-04-13 11:28:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its real but it is only short term when a rain or storm aproaches the pressure changes ,sometime so much that even people can feel it
a barometer is more sensitive and feels it a lot sooner ,so do crickets ,and birds and a collection of animals .nothing mistical about that
2007-04-13 18:17:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crickets chirp according to temperature..There is a formula that divides the length of chirp into a given number and it's accurate! www.noblenet.org/reference/crickets.htm
2007-04-13 11:29:23 · answer #5 · answered by segabill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine always could, right before I fed them to the tarantula and gecko
2007-04-13 12:54:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋