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  New Yorkers looking around right now going?  What?
context: The Canadian groundhog died last night so yeah, never ending winter for us. >
  
  That article giving me big Lil Sebastian vibes >
  
  I kinda get that from Groundhog Day in general lol >
  
  “I feel like Andy McDowell in Groundhog Day” - Schmidt >
  
  Meteorologists/Physicists/Astronomers: "We have worked together to carefully identify climate and weather patterns based on spatial cosmic activity and thermodynamics.
  Pennsylvanians: "We're going to noodle this whistle pig out of his hole and see what he tells us!" >
  
  If we're taking it that far, we might as well point out that whether the thing sees it's shadow is subjective enough that there have been disagreements before. >
  
  This is part of the process. Groundhog weather science allows for disagreement and pseudo knowledge to evolve over time. Some suggest bringing in reviewer groundhogs to evaluate Phil’s initial shadow reaction. Others are experimenting with platypus-based replication. In any event we can rest assured that winter will decide what to do based on the best evidence. >
  
  He’s only right 40% of the time anyway, I believe a panel of at least 3 groundhogs is needed. >
  
  America’s got Groundhogs >
  
  The groundhog with the biggest sob story is the winner and is the one we go with? >
  
  Weird. The groundhog in a town nearby predicted an early spring. How does one resolve groundhog disputes? >
  
  Squeaking and tail slapping. >
  
  Sounds like a good time >
  
  There is no way that this winter is ever going to end as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don't see any other way out. He's gotta be stopped….. and I have to stop him. cocks gun >
  
  Us Pennsylvanians won't let you kill our god >
  
  I’m on the other side of PA…. And you worship a false god. Repent and thou shall be saved… >
  
  Repent, ye yinzers, and kneel at the alter of Wawa. >
  
  You'll take my Sheetz from my cold dead hands >
  
  First day of spring is March 20th.  6 weeks from today is checks calendar  March 20th.
  Yeah, checks out. >
  
  Match, 16th.  
  Checkmate phenologists! >
  
  "Mahch 16th" >
  
  I gotta mathch 4 ya, Mui face and ur ass... boom roosted nuts >
  
  My cat's shedding fur tells me it is going to be an early spring. >
  
  The narcissists popping up in my yard tell me it's spring already. >
  
  LOL, I'm picturing a bunch of assholes recording with phones yelling at your house.
  Edit:  Holy shit, it's Punxsutawney Phil's reddit account! >
  
  "This is pitiful. A thousand people freezing their butts off waiting to worship a rat. What a hype. Groundhog Day used to mean something in this town. They used to pull the hog out, and they used to eat it. You're hypocrites, all of you!" >
  
  I've got a winter prediction: it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you the rest of your life. >
  
  Prima donnas >
  
  OK, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooold out there today! >
  
  Babe, I got you babe, I got you babe, I got you babe >
  
  I fucking hate that groundhog...but I also live in Northern Michigan and it's early February. I had at minimum about 8 weeks left of winter no matter what that damn groundhog said anyway. >
  
  The groundhog's prediction is local.  What he says has no bearing on the weather in N Michigan regardless. >
  
  
  The groundhog's prediction is local.  What he says has no bearing on the weather in N Michigan regardless.
  
  Then why is it a national holiday? >
  
  
  It's not.
  
  It is in fact a national holiday. It's just not a federal holiday. There in lies the difference. >
  
  Honestly in Pennsylvania, winter has just started. >
  
  You'll probably change your mind on that very early next week. >
  
  Yeah, but tomorrow is gonna feel like 6 weeks. >
  
  Yeah here in DC it's been 50 degrees all "winter". We can't have 6 more weeks of a season that never happened. >
  
  We did get a little bit of snow yesterday. So winter did happen at least a little. >
  
  That's true. The textbook definition of "dusting". >
  
  My bluebonnets popping up in my yard already say that rat is wrong. >
  
  What part of Texas are you from??? >
  
  And much like Phil, I'm going back to sleep. >
  
  What would happen if the groundhog died after leaving its hole? 
  Apocalypse? >
  
  Pretty much I think >
  
  Can someone just install a giant umbrella over his home so we don't have to deal with this again? >
  
  This, from a vole who's wrong about 80% of the time. >
  
  Punxsutawney Phil Is secretly a Woodchuck pretending to be a Groundhog.    It's a vast Big Rural conspiracy!! >
  
  Oh, well in that case....how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He'd chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could, if a woodchuck could chuck wood! >
  
  Loving how many comments here are people fellating themselves over how smart they are for figuring out that groundhog day isn't some actual scientific prediction >
  
  Yeah, calling it dumb was edgy when I was in the 3rd grade. 30 years later I understand it’s just a fun thing that gets people together. >
  
  It's a fun little thing we do for fun and then we see it in the news and it makes us feel a tiny bit better because funny ground rodent. People can't have fun I guess. >
  
  Go home Phil you're drunk >
  
  Where I live we have no winters (anymore)... >
  
  10 more weeks for Colorado. >
  
  The prognosticator of prognosticators >
  
  Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today. >
  
  That poor groundhog surrounded by all those stupid humans, another thing that needs to be left in the last century >
  
  I was truly hoping for 6 more weeks till Spring myself. >
  
  This is one of the sillier traditions done, as it has resulted in 40% accuracy. This shit is worse than a coin flip. >
  
  He's only "not seen his shadow" like 20 times ever. >
  
  Spring starts on a specific day anyway so I really do not understand this bizarre ritual >
  
  Winter hasn't even started yet where I'm at >
  
  So does this mean winter will officially start for us in the northeast now? >
  
  Does anyone have Phil’s receipts? What’s his track record >
  
  FloridaMan here still waiting for winter to start. >
  
  Someone go punch Phil. >
  
  Who is the more accurate predictor:
  Punxsutawney Phil
  or
  Jim Cramer >
  
  Neither. I trust Phil Connors. >
  
  Fuck you Phil, I wanted spring >
  
  Doesn’t winter have to actually start for us to have 6 more weeks of it? >
  
  Hint: "There's always 6 more weeks of winter from groundhog day". >
  
  A coyote knocked on my door yesterday and told me that spring was here in Arizona >
  
  Well I heard someone chant Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn over and over again, until my door turned into a portal. Looking through the portal, because I couldn’t resist, was Cthulhu and then…. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn, Cthulhu fhtagn, Cthulhu fhtagn, Cthulhu fhtagn r/ihadastroke >
  
  Damn, not as good as 6 more weeks until spring I guess. >
  
  Lol.  
  It's like both predictions are the same thing. >
  
  Yeah, well, my cat caught a mouse this morning and that means an early spring. I know because I just made it up and I choose to believe it. I love Punxsutawney Phil though. The caretakers treat him and his "wife" like royalty and they are very very cute (got to "meet" him - or one of his incarnations - years ago at a brewery thing.)
  "I'll give you a winter prediction. It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's going to last you for the rest of your life." >
  
  Looks like six more weeks of basketball! >
  
  6 weeks that's right around the corner. >
  
  It's a cross quarter day with six weeks to the spring equinox.  The Halfway point between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.
  It's a secret remanent of the Pagan holiday Candlemas/Imbolc. >
  
  An annual tradition since 1887 — that’s a 136 year old groundhog!! >
  
  Or if you are on the eastern side of Canada, 12 weeks of winter left >
  
  Considering Phil is only 40% right, this is great news! >
  
  Heard it yesterday. Looking forward to hearing it tomorrow again. And the next day. And the day after that. Etc. >
  
  Meanwhile in Canada 💀 >
  
  Michigan’s Woody predicted the opposite for us. Phil is only good for that region after all! :) >
  
  Either way it will start warming up in a few months as normal. >
  
  This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather. >
  
  It’s supposed to hit -37 C here tomorrow.
  Coincidentally, I’m off to the Caribbean for 5 weeks.
  :)
  Timing is everything. >
  
  I don’t give a fuck what the rodent or the scientists say. I’ve got a ski trip to CO at the end of the month and if I get shafted they’re both going down. >
  
  I hereby officially request 6 more months of winter for Florida. >
  
  WGAF? It's ALWAYS six more weeks of winter. >
  
  Yes.  That's the joke. >
  
  Checks the date
  February 2nd... Six times seven makes... March 16th. Yep, checks out. Weird you need a groundhog for that, though. >
  
  Well, I guess that's better than the month and a half of winter left that we could have had... >
  
  I honestly don't think rodents have a great understanding of planetary obliquity or phenology, but I've been wrong before. >
  
  Forecast for Chicago next week is upper 40s. I’m all for harmless traditions, but this one needs an update. >
  
  Sucks because north Texas is pretty much frozen over, no deaths yet as far as I know >
  
  I live in florida so winter came on a tuesday this year >
  
  The State of Alaska says this groundhog business is ridiculous. Winter ends in May (if your lucky). So get over it guys and gals. 🙄 >
  
  Worth noting that a coin flip is more accurate than this groundhog. >
  
  Worse than a coin flip:
  "Since making his first prediction in 1887, Punxsutawney Phil has been right 39% of the time, according to the Stormfax Weather Almanac. " SOURCE >
  
  Uhh, yeah, that's why I said a coin flip is more accurate. >
  
  For sure, but I don't think many people know just how inaccurate these "predictions" are. >
  
  It's fucking February. Of course winter is for 6 more weeks..unless you live in the Northeast US, it's more like 10. >
  
  TBH I'm still waiting for winter to start out here. still like 3 feet below average for snowfall >
  
  We’re having winter? This is the first week of winter temps so far