Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Pork Sausage Day
This is the day that the entire country celebrates Groundhog Day, except in Iowa, they have Pork Sausage Day...ground hog!!! I hear that Punxatawny Phil has prognosticated 6 more weeks of winter, and that is all well and good, for a couple of reasons. Pennsylvania is nearly an entire continent away from the Inland Northwest, and our weather patterns are usually in diametric opposition to each other. So a cold stretch of weather in the east will usually mean mild stuff for us in the northwest. The second reason is more mathematical. Take out your calendar and count 6 weeks into the future, you will arrive at March 16th (that's the day before my birthday if you would like to begin shopping for gifts). The official beginning of spring is March 21st, so doing the math we find that 6 more weeks of winter would result in a slightly early spring. I can smell a scam brewing in this whole Groundhog boondoggle! Besides, here in the Spokane area, spring began just after Christmas.
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Sun Prairie's Jimmy the groundhog says spring is on its way
ReplyDeleteSun Prairie's Jimmy the groundhog and Jerry Hahn of Jerry's Apples. Jimmy said winter will be short this year.
A live domesticated rodent named Jimmy, prodded into the budding daylight Tuesday in Sun Prairie, cast no shadow, transmitting the news of an early spring as a light snow fell about his ears, which were partly and ironically shadowed by a comical hat.
The promotional civic exercise in extended forecast meteorological fiction and cheerleading dates to 1948, as Jimmy has appeared in several incarnations, one stuffed.
Tuesday's result is said to mean there will be fewer than six more weeks of winter — not really going out on a limb considering that spring starts on March 20, six weeks and three days from today.
Posted in Local on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 6:05 pm Sun Prairie, Jimmy Goundhog
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