2.2.10

DAMMIT, PHIL!



Six more weeks of winter - Stop looking for your shadow!

From CNN-
"CNN meteorologist Chad Meyers, citing stormfax.com, said Phil is correct 39 percent of the time. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration goes even further, saying Phil has "no predictive skill." (editors note: that's BS.)

The tradition behind the famous groundhog goes back to medieval times when there was a superstition that all hibernating animals emerged from their caves and dens to check the weather on Candlemas, which is halfway between the winter solstice in December and the vernal equinox in March.

Seeing their shadows would mean winter would go on for another six weeks, and they could go back to sleep, according to the tradition.

The tradition came to America with the early German settlers who arrived in Pennsylvania."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Punxsutawney Phil is an opportunist and a libertine.

P.J.S. said...

You bite your tongue, sir! You bite your tongue!