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Wednesday 2 February 2011

It's Groundhog day

Not anything to do with Bill Murray; cute though that film was but the real deal. Alan Caruba has the details... lots of details, here's one:
'The tradition was that, if Candlemas was sunny, the remaining six weeks of winter would be stormy. Thus, if the groundhog emerges from hibernation on February 2nd and looks behind himself to see his shadow, it must be sunny. '

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