Oh, No! The Groundhog Didn't See His Shadow!

Happy Groundhog Day! It's February 2nd.

There are whole histories of Groundhog Day. In earlier times it was Badger Day, and naturally it has something to do with a certain amount of weeks before Spring in certain locales. But the bad news is that according to meteorologist, the little critters aren't any better at predicting longterm weather than, uh, meteorologists. Punxsutawney Phil is accurate less than 40% of the time. So the announcement that the groundhog had predicted an early spring this year is actually bad news in my book. Because the rodent is usually wrong, it suggests that spring is either going to be late (ugh!) or will be right on time (ok)...but it most likely won't be early. Damn you, Phil!