Disagreement develops among Pennsylvania’s winter/spring forecasting groundhogs
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
Members of the York Slumbering Groundhog Lodge deliver Poor Richard s prognostication in a Facebook Live event.
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A disagreement emerged Tuesday morning among Pennsylvania’s weather-forecasting groundhogs, at least among those that emerged during a pandemic Groundhog Day.
The most famous of the woodchucks, Punxsutawney Phil, delivered a socially distanced, virtual prognostication of 6 more weeks of winter to his official handlers in the Punxsutawney Groundhog.
But, at about the same sun-rising time far to the southeast, at Sweet Arrow Lake County Park in Schuylkill County, Grover the Groundhog and Sweet Arrow Sue – the only forecasting husband-wife team of large rodents – offered a YouTube prediction of more springtime hope:
Groundhog Day predictions: Pa.’s rodents are split on winter vs. early spring
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
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Poppy, a rescue groundhog that has appeared in a Groundhog Day-themed television commercial with Bill Murray, at 11 a.m. today made it 2 to 2 in the annual rodent-based forecast for spring vs. winter.
The resident of Acorn Acres Wildlife Rehabilitation in Millersville ambled directly to the bowl of treats on the early-spring side of her run.
And with that forecast, the 4 groundhogs that delivered Groundhog Day prognostications for either an early spring or a prolonged winter of 6 more weeks split down the middle on the issue.