When You Can't Find a Thermometer

Anyone who's met the boy knows that he loves the weather. We own approximately 2398574 books on the subject. We've read every book on weather our local library has on the shelves. He will read the same weather stories over and over, never tiring of them.

When he told me he wanted some fun facts, I immediately thought of giving him weather facts. The only problem is, most of the books we've read will have included nearly any fun fact I could think of. Cue weather research for this Mama.

I stumbled across this gem this morning, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be one he doesn't already know.

While the method varies, from counting for 14 seconds and adding 40 to counting to 15 seconds and adding 37, it seems people have tried this, and it works. The Library of Congress had this posted on a fun science facts site:






The frequency of chirping varies according to temperature. To get a rough estimate of the temperature in degrees fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37. The number you get will be an approximation of the outside temperature.






Looks like we have a little experiment to try once the crickets come out!