When will winter end? Groundhogs make spring predictions in Canada
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As expected, Sam was the first groundhog in North America to make a prediction – thanks to the Atlantic time zone. In Wiarton, Ont., the community’s celebrity groundhog, Wiarton Willie, was also expected to make an appearance Thursday. Willie’s hosts in South Bruce Peninsula say the groundhog is once again white-furred as per local legend, after town spokeswoman Danielle Edwards says it brought in an “understudy” with a more traditional brown hue last year while it searched for a replacement.
In a playful and peer-reviewed study published by the American Meteorological Society, researchers out of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., say groundhogs are “beyond a shadow of a doubt” no better than chance at prognosticating the arrival of spring.
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