Heat was already in the news in 2023 and will continue to be. So far, it was the fourth warmest January-April period in records going back to 1850, according to United States Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOA). And the situation will only get worse. The agency says it is 28% likely that 2023 will be the hottest year on record and 99% that it will be in the top 10.
because of Climate change, night temperatures rose faster. If you talk to any expert, they will refer to “minimum high temperatures”. This indicator is important because without this nocturnal cooling, organisms, such as plants and animals, would not have time to recover. What do we expect to hear about all this? cockroaches.
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No, seriously, crickets. For some species, it is climate, the faster they sing. There is a theory that says the following: if we count the number of dice (a loud and steady sound made by crickets) in 15 seconds and add 40, we get the temperature in Fahrenheit. The system works so well that Amos Dolbear, a physicist at Tufts University in Massachusetts, published a paper on the subject in 1897, and the scale has been named after him ever since.
If you don’t feel like doing the math, the National Weather Service office in El Paso can help. a tool Connected To convert cricket call into temperature has been developed and is available here.
Incidentally, it takes 50 chirps in 15 seconds to reach 32.2°C – the threshold many use to mark the onset of heat wave (A phenomenon that occurs when temperatures are five degrees Celsius above average for at least six consecutive days).
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