GROUNDHOG DAY! SUPER BOWL SUNDAY! PALINDROME DAY!

partyparty groundhog partyparty

Folks in the Northern Hemisphere will find out if Spring arrives cool
Or they'll be condemned to six more weeks of White Hell cold

We've celebrated a couple New Years last month (Western solar & Asian Lunar).
But going by Ye Olde Western Calendar, February 2 marks the last Feast related to ye previous year's Yuletide - The Purification Of The Virgin, aka Candlemas.

The day is traditionally the harbinger of Spring. Or not.
According to Ye Olde British weather maxim ...

“If Candlemas Day dawns fair and clear,
Expect two Winters in the year.
But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain,
Winter is gone and will not come again.”

So ... In a few hours we'll know if it's gonna be ...
cool ... applause
OR
cold ... moping

As things work out this year, Murkuns will also bid farewell to a vestige of '19 ...
The Super Bowl closes out the '19 NFL Season ...
San Francisco 49ers
OR
Kanas City Chiefs
... will become Super Bowl Champs.

AND *Drum Roll* -
IT'S THE DAY OF THE PALINDROME!! yay
O2 - O2 - 2020 reads the same forwards & backwards!! wow

Y'all have never seen such a date before & never will again.
It last occurred 909 years ago 11 - 11 - 1111 and won't happen again 'til 12 - 12 - 2121.

Stay Tuned For Reports From Groundhogs groundhog Across North Murka As They Come In!
Or come out. Depending on how one choose to looks at it.

Current Tally -
cool - 9

cold - 4

cowboy
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Festivities are underway in Punxsutawney in preparation for Phil's prognostication.
See live stream link in comment above roll eyes

cowboy
It's snowing at Gobbler's Knob, Pa. No shadow. Early Spring!!
Punxsutawney Phil - cool

very happy
Phil's six-week prognostications have been correct about 39 percent of the time. Like I said 6 more weeks of winter.cheers
This just in from Staten Island Chuck ....... cool
grin
Well, I wouldn't speak for you, but I plan to still be around on 12 - 02 - 2021,
which would actually be the the next "day of the palindrome", pal. grin
This in from Ohio -
Weather Whistlepig Buckeye Chuck .... cool
From New Jersey -
'Nastics's forecast is for longevity!!

Optimism can't hurt, eh Jim? thumbs up
laugh

cowboy

cowboy
I didn't realise this was really a big thing laugh rolling on the floor laughing

beer
In s dreadful turn of events -
The Nova Scotia blizzard abated just long enough for ...

Shubenacadie Sam
@ShubenacadieSam
Who could have called this, it has cleared after the storm allowing for a shadow! I predict 6 more weeks of winter! #SamCam #ShubieWildlife #GroundhogDay2020
shock

Canadian woman speaks for ALL Canucks -

frustrated
Things look brighter further West in Canada as clouds blanket Quebec -

Fred la marmotte says: EARLY SPRING cool
Looks like you'll have reason to stay alive, 'Nastics -
From your neck of the woods ...

Staten Island Chuck .... cool
Milltown Mel did not see his shadow, according to folks at the American Legion post. So — just like his furry friends in Pennsylvania and Staten Island – Mel is calling for an early spring.
cool
Nova Scotia now has Malvern, NY to share the misery ...

Malverne Mel also made his weather prediction Sunday morning, at Crossroads Farm in Malvern, N.Y.

Outcome: Malverne Mel went against the grain and saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. Guess that’s not too bad, because we haven’t had much of a winter so far in the eastern U.S.

cold
Wiarton Willie
@willieofficial
Well folks, my prediction is #official. With cloudy skies and snow falling upon us this morning in #Wiarton it was very hard to find my shadow - even with all the camera lights around! Fans of spring rejoice, an #EarlySpring is around the corner. #WiartonWillie #Wiarton

cool
Ol' Man Winter's headed South!!

From Georgia -
General Beauregard Lee - cold
Lucy Lobster seals Nova Scotia's doom -

LucyLobster
@LucyLobsterNS
It’s official!! I saw my Shadow this morning! 6 more weeks of winter on Nova Scotia’s beautiful South Shore!! @LobsterCrawl @KalinMitchelCTV @VisitNovaScotia @VisitBarrington @
We can call it!
With a few pockets of Winter hold outs ....

SPRING HAS SPRUNG ON NORTH MURKA cheering

dancing ... dancing

happy place
Mic Santa goes around the globe, will the G-hog. laugh
He didn't see his shadow.

Today the temperature is 70 degrees.

I like...........banana
wave Fonda!
happy place

cowboy
We had a bright sun shiny day.. today it's 65. Almost every year a few things happen. Robins always come back too soon, our Daffodils come up too soon and of course they get iced. I usually cut as many as I can and the rest are left to hang their heads and hide their faces till the sun shines again and most survive. wine
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