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Punxsutawney Phil Sees Early Spring

Punxsutawney Phil does not see his shadow. Early spring!

Let the earnest deconstructions begin…

February 2, 2019
Happy Groundhog Day Waiting for Spring

Happy Groundhog Day!

As you probably know by now, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, prognosticating an early spring. We’ll have 17 hours of blazing sunshine before you know it.

I’d have posted earlier, but somebody was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past deadline on his article. Come to think of it, my sick beard makes me look a little bit like this groundhog.

Here’s Vaughan Williams’ “Folk Songs of the Four Seasons,” with its chorus “Early in the Spring” (following a prologue, “To the Ploughboy”).

February 2, 2016
Groundhog Day Six More Weeks of Winter?

O Mystic Groundhog. Thank you for this gift of six more weeks of winter. Ice and slush may not be ideal for walking or driving, but I will take it any day over sizzling on the griddle for four months. No, heavy socks and cozy food are more my speed. I love climbing into bed with a good book and listening to the wind howl.

The Washington Post states the prognostications of Punxsutawney Phil have been correct 80 percent of the time. CNN’s reportage places the figure closer to 39. (Phil’s handlers claim it is 100.) That’s still better than the actual professionals who whip everyone into a frenzy at the first prospect of the humblest dusting. From now on, I get all my forecasts from the groundhog.

Story in the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/02/02/groundhog-day-2015-punxsutawney-phil-sees-shadow-predicts-six-more-weeks-of-winter/

CNN (with video):
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/02/02/groundhog.day/

The Punxsutawney Phil song, by David C. Perry:

February 2, 2015

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