Sunday, February 2, 2025

Today the Infamous Rodent Saw His Shadow

Today was February 2nd, 2025. That means it was Groundhog Day. The somehow eternally young groundhog known as Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow. He deemed that for such a reason we will have six more weeks of winter weather, Spring equinox (March 20th) and a warming planet be damned! He is only right about 35% of the time, but I doubt most people trust a magical rodent so much as they find this whole thing to be some whimsical and silly fun. Plus, we got a really good movie with Bill Murray out this event (literally titled, "Groundhog Day," and nothing else) so that's a nice fringe benefit of this pseudo-holiday. 

Phil will most likely be wrong about the weather based on past statistics, but at least he didn't bite anybody like a less-famous groundhog did (multiple cities apparently have them) some years ago. I'd rather somebody call the forecast incorrectly but at least keep their teeth to themselves! That would make for an interesting episode of the, "Today," show, however, if Al Roker decided to just chomp down on some bystanders in the plaza one day. Anyways, Phil saw his shadow, nobody cares. The holiday itself is what's fun, not what the groundhog actually sees.

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