What do you think about Groundhog Day?

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What do you think about Groundhog Day?

I think it is a great idea to have named a holiday after the McRib sandwich.

When I was a kid I thought the groundhog thing was real and I remember having a conversation with one of my friends in the 2nd grade about if it was real or not. lol

I see Groundhog Day as a positive sign that spring and summer are on the way.

Whether a groundhog would see its shadow only depends on the light, which would depend on the cloudiness (or lack thereof) that day (and the direction the groundhog looks), says nothing about what the weather will be like even that afternoon. However, I don’t know if groundhogs can sense other things that might tell them it’s going to stay cold and it’s not time to come out yet, and that might be the real reason it goes back in. So the seeing its shadow thing? I don’t believe that. Whether a groundhog can somehow detect incoming weather? I don’t know.

I think they're called Hedgehogs in England.

I thought Groundhog Day was a great film.

It has something to do with the greatures called "Groundhogs" which are probably creatures related to the haggis family here in the UK?

... Something I've never heard of. Except some movie reference I haven't ever watched yet.

Something I've likely never encountered of.

Maybe something I've never thought of much and explicitly until now.

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We have them here aka whistle pigs or woodchucks.They will eat your green beans.People used the hides for shoe laces and banjos.
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Groundhog

Hedgehogs have spines (like porcupines), and are related to shrews, and moles, and are needle toothed insectivores.



Groundhogs are big bucktoothed plant eating rodents. A type of marmot. Aka woodchucks, whistle pigs, etc. Related to gophers.

Someone told me that the custom started in England,and that it was brought here by the English settlers, but in England it's badgers, and not a rodent, that has the honor of predicting the weather by being scared by its own shadow, or not.

Groundhog Day takes place at the mid-point of the winter season. There will always be six more weeks of winter after Groundhog Day, concluding on the spring Equinox.

I've never understood people who say spring will come faster or slower? It begins on the same date every year.