Groundhogs Disagree on Winter’s End
America’s two groundhog weather forecasters made opposite predictions for the end of winter this morning, with Georgia’s General Beauregard Lee emerging from his den and not seeing his shadow, and Pennsylvania’s Punxatawny Phil seeing his.
According to tradition, that means that as far as Beau is concerned, we’ll have an early spring. Phil predicts six more weeks of winter. The two woodchucks made identical predictions last year.
Here in Georgia (and in Pennsylvania, for that matter), most of January felt like spring. The Weather Service is predicting a turnaround in the pattern, however, to more normal temperatures, if not colder than normal. The computer models that are used to make these predictions have been unreliable and changing at times from day to day, leaving forecasters unsure of the confidence level in the forecasts. Once two fronts make it through Georgia today and Friday night, for the next two weeks you can look for highs only around 50 degrees — not very springlike to me.
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