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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGroundhog Day 2018: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter
Source: York Daily Record
Groundhog Day 2018: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter
Joel Shannon, York (Pa.) Daily Record Published 1:10 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2018 | Updated 8:11 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2018
YORK, Pa. The results of Groundhog Day 2018 are in: According to legend, we're in for six more weeks of winter because Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow. That's in spite of forecasts that predicted a cloudy, shadow-less morning.
The Pennsylvania groundhog isn't the only weather-predicting rodent in this quirky American tradition, but he is the most famous. And according to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, his opinion is the only one that matters.
He's not always right. But he's always popular.
Meanwhile, across state lines in New Jersey, Milltown Mel predicted an early spring.
At 7:25 a.m. Eastern time on a hill outside Punxsutawney, Pa., known as Gobbler's Knob, the seemingly immortal Phil the same rodent who launched the tradition in 1887, if you believe his handlers looked for his shadow.
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Joel Shannon, York (Pa.) Daily Record Published 1:10 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2018 | Updated 8:11 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2018
YORK, Pa. The results of Groundhog Day 2018 are in: According to legend, we're in for six more weeks of winter because Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow. That's in spite of forecasts that predicted a cloudy, shadow-less morning.
The Pennsylvania groundhog isn't the only weather-predicting rodent in this quirky American tradition, but he is the most famous. And according to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, his opinion is the only one that matters.
He's not always right. But he's always popular.
Meanwhile, across state lines in New Jersey, Milltown Mel predicted an early spring.
At 7:25 a.m. Eastern time on a hill outside Punxsutawney, Pa., known as Gobbler's Knob, the seemingly immortal Phil the same rodent who launched the tradition in 1887, if you believe his handlers looked for his shadow.
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/02/groundhog-day-2018/1088175001/
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Groundhog Day 2018: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2018
OP
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)1. Worse than that
Weve got six more weeks of Donald Trump.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)6. Better six weeks than six years.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)9. six minutes is too much :(
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)2. "Since 1988, the groundhog was "right" 14 times and "wrong" 16 times"
Solid record
lunasun
(21,646 posts)3. Yes!!!! Woohoo
Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)4. I'm waiting to hear from the Staten Island groundhog
Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)7. He has spoken! Early spring in NY!
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/staten-island-chuck-predicts-early-spring-groundhog-day-article-1.3794704
I'll take hope wherever I can find.
I'll take hope wherever I can find.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)5. Meanwhile, Morning Joe just announced that another famous rodent,
"Bronx Fats," predicted only four more weeks. (I think he emerged from his shower at the WH this morning and saw his toes.)
And the Gregorian calendar stubbornly continues to predict six weeks and four days until spring.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)8. I'm from Buffalo. We would call that good news (an early spring).