SIBERIAN BEAR REPORT - '18
GROUNDHOG DAY UPDATE -
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North Murkuns eagerly awaiting this year's forecast of an early Spring/continued Winter.
Reports are that snow persons in many communities have been doused with gasoline and snow shovels are piled high.
The snow persons & shovels will be set ablaze in the event that the local marmot meteorologist proclaims Winter's end.
Groundhog Day, the only day of the year named for an animal, is the highest, most eagerly anticipated & festive day of the entire year!
It marks the last vestige of the prior year/Christmas Season.
In the Old Church Calendar, Feb. 2 is the Feast of The Purification of The Virgin/Candlemas.
It is at this time of year that weather patterns begin to shift.
Northerly patterns which bring high pressure & clear cold weather begin to give way to more Southerly patterns bringing low pressure, warmer temps, clouds & often heavy wet Spring snows.
This change was noted by ol' time weather watchers.
If the change occurred at mid-Winter, it indicated the change had begun & Spring would arrive early.
Hence the old weather saw -
'If Candlemas Day dawn fair and clear,
Expect two Winters in the year.
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Go Winter and come not again.'
Reports from whistlepigs 'round North Murka will be coming in shortly.
This blog will keep y'all informed of events as they occur...
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THIS JUST IN!
Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow thus predicting six more weeks of Winter!
In a related item, Phil & his handlers were immediately taken into protective custody by Pennsylvania State Police who then exchanged gunfire with the crowd that had suddenly morphed from festive to fearsome!
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Staten Island Chuck (New York's official meteorological marmot) has announced an early Spring for the Big Apple!
Pennsylvania travel agents report surge in trips being planned to New York!
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Apology accepted Molly!
Let's get out of here, Molly!
Quebec's Fred la Marmotte has announced Early Spring!
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General Beauregard Lee of Lilburn, GA proclaimed six more weeks of Winter.
BTW - The Generation is credited with being Murka's Most Accurate weather whistlepig...94%!
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AL GORE has emerged from his mansion and announced...
600 years of warmth.
Thank you for that input, environmentAL.
Big surprise there. No one could've seen THAT coming.
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Impending extinction level event...1
Thank you for that report, 'stee!
So.
Have any survivors...er...I mean researchers brought in reports from the wild bear observations?
Shubenacadie Sam of Nova Scotia says Early Spring!
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One about a man trying to do sciencey stuff gets distracted by women
The observation of bears should take place on February, 15th, but something tells me that they will stick to the ones in the zoo again.
Anyway...
Not trending well, y'all!
Sun Prairie Jimmy...
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Looks like it's gonna be Winter Cold & Snow for another six weeks.
I should get me something warm to get me through this.
And cuddly. Yeah. Something warm & cuddly oughta keep me distracted for six weeks or so....
I imagine it's BECAUSE they observe the zoo bears that they'll be able to AGAIN observe bears.
If y'all are following my line of reasoning here.
That's so true!
However, in order to get more accurate scientific results, I think that the observers should sacrifice something and try their luck with wild bears!
You and Mick have same hair colour!!
And doing research in the wild preserves one's integrity.
On the other hand, not getting killed by ornery, hungry research subjects awakening from hibernation is good also.
Perhaps y'all's researchers could arrive at an acceptable (and healthy) compromise.
1) Do highly credible research on wild subjects in their natural environment.
2) Select research subjects which are more docile than bears and, ideally, considerably smaller than the researchers.
You know. Like a groundhog...
Did you read the report?
Anyways have a surprising ground hog day.
That's true and - we are both Aquarius.
@miclee
I cannot argue with that, but people tend to keep their traditions...
What do you think - how many groundhogs should be observed in order to get accurate data?
Gimme a break, Wen! ...
People certainly can become entrenched in tradition.
I'm really not seeing a big problem with getting researchers to switch from bears to groundhogs.
It's a simple matter of attrition.
The groundhog rresearchers will have long and productive careers...influencing future generations of researchers.
The bear researchers will likely have significantly less influence on researchers in the future...
they having been, you know...
Aquarius Uber Alles, 'tees
We (and presumably the researchers) should wear little bells so we/they won't come upon them suddenly and startle them.
This may work better with the smaller & less aggressive black bears than, say, grizzly bears, polar bears & Kodiak Bears.
Black & grizzly bears both live in Western Murka.
The story goes, 'You can tell black bear scat from grizzly bear scat; no little bells in black bear scat'.
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Do they bite?
Very sorry sure didn't mean it.
They only bite guys with the fashion sense of Cold War Comm'nusts from the '50s...
But did those so-called "news" "outlets" report on that Bolshevik fur hat-in-waiting clear over in Russia?
Yah. I don't think so!
There's a lot of wisdom in your words.
It's definitely better to keep researching groundhogs!