America's favorite rodent predicts long winter.

[Deep13]

http://www.groundhog.org/

Apparently, sunny skies at the beginning of February means that cold temperatures will continue for about a month and a half. OTOH, a cloud cover means that heat is prevented from escaping into space. This supposedly means a short winter.

Well, the sunny skies made the woodchuck cast a shadow.

[ThatsMyBarack]

1. Damn rodent.

Always sentences us to six more weeks of winter EVERY DAMN YEAR! :mad:

[av8rdave]

2. That %$#@ groundhog...another global warming denier!

:rofl:

[edbermac]

3. Phil....you're roadkill now!

:grr:

[Terra Alta]

4. can I hibernate for the next six weeks?

I'm so tired of winter!

[Sanity Claws]

5. Staten Island Chuck predicts early spring for NYC

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/02/02/2010-02-02_punxsutawney_phil_predicts_six_more_weeks_of_winter.html

Chuck was in a good mood this morning. He didn't bite the mayor this year.

[joeybee12]

6. America's Favorite Rodent? Watch it...Walt Disney is coming to come

back and ahunt you over that.

[guitar man]

7. somebody shoot that SOB!!

I've had all the damn winter I can stand!! :grr:

[mnhtnbb]

8. Early spring for NC according to our prognosticator:

Sir Walter Wally: http://www.wral.com/weather/story/6943900/

[elocs]

9. Well, 6 more weeks of winter kind of brings us up to the first day of Spring

and I can live with that. Here in Wisconsin Spring doesn't usually really get here until April sometime.