GROUNDHOG DAY - Time For The Annual Awakening Of The Furry Forecasters!
According To Ancient Weather Lore, Groundhogs Breaking Hibernation On Feb. 2 Determine Whether Spring arrives Today
or if folks in the Northern Hemisphere will be condemned to another Six Weeks of White Hell on Earth 
Feb. 2 is Candlemas or Purification Of The Virgin on the Old Church Calendar.
It's the Last day having Any connection with Christmas & an old weather rhyme goes ...
"If Candlemas Day dawn fair and clear, expect two Winters in the year
If Candlemas Day brings cloud and rain, winter won't come again"
This wonder of weather prognostication occurs at sunup as the critters emerge from their Winter dens
... If it's sunny, the cowardly beasts see their shadows & hide in their holes for Six Weeks 
thus delaying the arrival of eagerly anticipated Spring ... 
Sunup is approaching the East Coast of North Murka & First Reports will be coming in shortly ...
A running tally of results will tell us the fate of various locales ...
Glorious Spring
... 8Frozen Hell
.......... 3A Tune To Set The Mood ...
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Comments (19)
Shubenacadie Sam was the first groundhog in North America to make his prediction, about an hour before other groundhogs in Ontario and the eastern United States
GLORIOUS SPRING
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Gen'rul Beauregard Lee sez GLORIOUS SPRING a'comin' to Dixie!
So sez Wisconsin's Weather Whistle Pig, Sun Prairie Jimmy.
I've done a rigorous study of Phil, and as with the vaccines, find his predictions, and promises, completely valid. Even trustworthy.
You can trust me, as usual. I'm not like all those others.
The key is y'all's RAINSTORMS -
The critters would use an Umbrella (Obviously!).
Umbrella = NO Shadow = GLORIOUS SPRING
only they use bears
Perhaps she'll update us on the situation there. ...
Serbia? ... Or is it Siberia?
Whatever ...
Stormy's kinda questionable -
He's not Exactly a groundhog - a Yellow-Bellied Marmot.
Also - He's Dead - Been taxidermied (stuffed) for Years.
I reckon bona fide Groundhogs are rare out West & they make do as best they can.
It's Claimed he saw his shadow & the West is in for FROZEN HELL.
Honestly -
I'm doubtful he saw is shadow - or anything Else ... on account of him bein' Dead.
It has never made sense to me. First, they don't come out of hibernation. Some handler drags them out of their cage, shakes them awake and hauls them out into a cold morning. Second, wouldn't it make more sense to say early spring if it is a nice sunny day, not a cloudy cold one?
This year our critter was a guy in a furry suit. At least he didn't bite the guy in the top hat on his ear like the other year.
Spring is when I shed 12 layers, the geese come home and it rains instead of snows. Oh..and I stop walking outside like a penguin!
Regarding Groundhog day this is pretty much how all the ladies here see most of the boys here
where most are a bunch of Ned Ryersons!!