Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow

[dan9999]

Groundhog sees shadow, more winter
February 2, 2010 7:46 a.m. EST
CNN

Punxsutawney Phil, America's most famous rodent prognosticator, saw his shadow Tuesday, signaling six more weeks of winter.

[bigge]

he was not in the south because it is raining like crap here, lol.

[dan9999]

Groundhogs predict 6 more weeks of winter
CBC News
February 2, 2010 7:44 AM

Lovers of snow, sleet and freezing temperatures, rejoice: according to Atlantic Canada's best-known groundhog and his Philadelphia counterpart, winter will stick around for six more weeks.

Shubenacadie Sam reportedly saw his shadow shortly after 8 a.m. AT Tuesday. Punxsutawney Phil saw his outline less than half an hour later.

Tradition holds that if a hibernating woodchuck casts a shadow on Feb. 2 — the Christian holiday of Candlemas — winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow is seen, legend says, spring will come early.

Sam's emergence from his burrow in Shubenacadie Wildlife Park, about an hour's drive north of Halifax, was not without some excitement.

The brown rodent hid under a small grouping of evergreen trees, then was lured out briefly, not by handfuls of green vegetation — his preferred diet —but by the encroaching hands of half a dozen handlers.

At Gobbler's Knob, about 105 kilometres northeast of Pittsburgh, Phil, also known as "the seer of seers" and "the prognosticator of prognosticators," was greeted by the loud cheers of thousands.

He was also received warmly by a dozen middle-aged men in long black coats and top hats, members of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club.

"Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye!" declared one member, reading from a yellow scroll on Phil's behalf.

"My shadow I see beside me," it was read. "Six more weeks of winter it will be!"

While Sam and Phil are considered reputable in the field of seasonal predictions, they are not the only ones.

Predictions are yet to come from Ontario's Wiarton Willie and Alberta's Balzac Billy .

[Night Prowler]

How about a report from Dunkirk Dave? :D

[burnsy]

How about a report from Dunkirk Dave? :D


I thought he was from Buffalo not Dunkirk

http://www.rocketship7.com/images/244_wrs_8.jpg

[Night Prowler]

isn't that Commander Tom?......:D


http://www.dunkirkdave.com/

[burnsy]

By god your right his real name was Dave opps, how many of these rodents are there and which one is telling the truth.

[Costactc]

Bummer, thought we'd have an early Spring- -12c here today.

[Night Prowler]

By god your right his real name was Dave opps, how many of these rodents are there and which one is telling the truth.

actually.....they do better than the meteorologists....:lol: