Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dolbear’s Law shows you can estimate outdoor temperature by counting the chirps of a snowy tree cricket and applying a simple ...

Don't have a thermometer? Don't need one. All you need is a little help from an insect. STEP 2: Subtract 40 from that number, divide the result by four and add 50. The final result is close to the ...

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In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...