Saturday, February 2, 2008

Happy Groundhog Day

February 2 is the day that Americans abdicated their meteorological prognostication to a rodent. Despite what the weather is actually like, or what well educated meteorologists say, we drag some poor groundhog from his slumber in Pennsylvania to tell us if spring is "just around the corner," or if we still have "six weeks of winter" left. Come to think of it, after some of the forecasts that I have seen from meteorologists, perhaps the groundhog is more capable than they are.

1 comment:

Roy said...

Stop the rodent abuse! Leave the poor creature alone. With Global Warming, we won't have winter anymore.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.