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[white_hart]

I’m pleased to see that Sky Movies Comedy is showing Groundhog Day today. Nothing but Groundhog Day, on a loop.

We’re warching Midsomer Murders, though.

If there had been a groundhog in Oxford today it would definitely have been able to see its shadow; it was bright and sunny enough that my solar-powered fairy lights actually came on. (Solar-powered fairy lights turn out not to be a great idea, as there’s rarely enough sunlight at the time of year when you want fairy lights to cheer you up.) I don’t know whether groundhog-based superstitions have much bearing on the weather in a groundhog-free country, though.

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[strange_complex]

A lack of groundhogs isn't a problem, as this is also Candlemas and that comes with essentially the same weather-related tradition:

If Candlemas Day be fair and bright
Winter will have another fight.
If Candlemas Day brings cloud and rain,
Winter will not come again.

[cosmolinguist]

I read today that even in the country the groundhog is from, he's apparently only right 33% of the time, so he couldn't be much worse here. :)

[mrs_redboots]

I read somewhere that there are various days during the year when the weather may be expected to follow a given pattern, which is how the superstitions arise - Candlemas, for instance, and St Swithun's day....