Tool: Cricket thermometer

[kylecorry31]

Sounds odd, but Dolbear's law shows the current temperature can be estimated using the frequency of cricket chirps.

NOAA provides a few resources:

• https://www.noaa.gov/education/explainers/can-crickets-tell-temperature-answer-is-in-their-chirp
• https://www.weather.gov/epz/wxcalc_cricketconvert

And LOC:

• https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/meteorology-climatology/item/can-you-tell-the-temperature-by-listening-to-the-chirping-of-a-cricket/

NOAA also states that different species of crickets have slightly different frequencies - so maybe vary this by region / let the user calculate/enter their own. Not sure how this holds up across the globe though.

In the future, this could use a microphone to automatically calculate the frequency.

When user taps button, start a counter - they keep tapping as long as they want, temperature will be re-estimated after each tap. If the user goes too long without tapping, then tapping again restarts the count.

In the future, this could use a microphone to automatically calculate the frequency (4800-5000 Hz).

[anaxonda]

Wow. Great idea.