Canadian Groundhogs Issue Clashing Weather Predictions
WIARTON, Ont. — Canada’s celebrity groundhogs issued clashing forecasts Tuesday but one of the country’s most prominent meteorologists said the debate over spring’s arrival is moot.
“Spring has been here from the get-go,” David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, said as the four-legged forecasters made their predictions. “We’ve just not had a winter.”
Ontario’s Wiarton Willie nonetheless called for six more weeks of cold weather, drawing cheers from fans who gathered for the albino woodchuck’s 60th anniversary.
The country’s most famous rodent did not actually emerge but somehow saw its shadow.