The Groundhog Has Spoken!

Groundhog's Day has come around once again, and as usual, the verdict is......

6 more weeks of winter weather! Sorry all of you who may be eager for an early Spring. Of course, this is for entertainment purposes only, but you would think they'd at least try to bring in some unpredictability to it. Anyway, the legend states that when he sees his shadow, that means 6 more weeks of winter, and when he doesn't see his shadow, it means an early Spring. But it really is a big joke considering that he has seen his shadow in 97 out of 112 years, so it seems more an excuse for the locals to camp out and get drunk watching a rodent crawl out of a hole, since the result is pretty much a forgone conclusion.

Anyway, maybe the result will have some validity this year. Not that it matters where I live since we don't have a winter season haha, but there are a lot of signals saying that, despite a break from winter weather for most of the nation this weekend into first half of next week, chances for cold and snow will return in the second half of this month for a good deal of the nation, and maybe into March.

Speaking of snow, the city of London had their biggest snowstorm in almost 20 years today! Somewhere though, Al Gore is still ranting about global warming. (Yes I know one snow event does not make a climate shift, so this is kinda tongue-in-cheek, but let's see how the next several years unfold... refer to my post awhile back for my viewpoint there).