Un Happy Thread (average, days, city, degree)

[Bottletree]

Originally Posted by tom77falcons

This is an interesting story that was on NBC National News about the upcoming Brood II cicada arrival.

The scientist in the news story claims that they can reach 90 to 100 decibels, equal to a rock concert.




17 Year Cicadas - East Coast Spring 2013 - YouTube

According to that video they only come out when the ground temperature is 64f. Isn't this spring a cold one, why didn't they come out last year? Do they come out in 17 year cycles?

[Mac15]

Originally Posted by flamingGalah!

There is one type of cicada native to the UK, but it's only found in the New Forest in Hampshire I believe & is endangered...

WTF!!! is a circada!!!!

[Mac15]

Synop report summary by countries

hmph..

[Mac15]

I wish my teachers would stop giving me colossal amounts of homework. Its not helping me I can't get all my revision done because of their crappy homework. And my first exam is under a month away.

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by owenc

WTF!!! is a circada!!!!

Various Tibicen in Trenton NJ - YouTube

That's what cicadas sound like in Pennsylvania (this video is from a border state to mine). Every summer afternoon sounds like this for months.


Night cicada - YouTube

This is what summer nights sound like. Ignore the trucks in the background, lol. It's the same cicadas but the cooler temps calm them down.



A Tibicen cicada - YouTube

This is one species of North American cicada


Cicada on my finger - YouTube

And here's another species.

[Mac15]

Oh right those. We dont have those its only hot countries that have them. I hear them in Spain and ive always wondered what they are. Really annoying.

[flamingGalah!]

Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed

Wow that was a massive heat wave then. oh! Was that when there were news reports that some of the elderly were collapsing in the heat that year?

No, that was the summers of 2003 & 2006, with temperatures reaching up to 10C warmer than that. Spring 2011 was the warmest & driest on record in the UK, with 28C being recorded at Wisley, Surrey, which was the warmest April temperature since 1949...

Originally Posted by owenc

Oh right those. We dont have those its only hot countries that have them. I hear them in Spain and ive always wondered what they are. Really annoying.

Well we do have those in the UK, the New Forest Cicada, which is found in Hampshire...

Cicada's are actually found on every continent except Antarctica & in climates from temperate to tropical, so not only in hot countries...

[Weatherfan2]

Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed

wow that was a massive heat wave then. Oh! Was that when there were news reports that some of the elderly were collapsing in the heat that year?

lol.

[sulkiercupid]

Interesting videos on the different cicada sounds, can't find a video example for here or even other areas of Australia but it sounds very different here.

[P London]

For god sake why do I feel so bloated.