{"id":5947,"date":"2016-02-02T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2016-02-02T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:12:54","slug":"happy-groundhog-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/happy-groundhog-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Groundhog Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 2 is the day when we traditionally celebrate Groundhog Day, when groundhogs everywhere (or at least where there are active tourist bureaus) come out to determine whether or not there will be six more weeks of winter. \u00a0It amazes me that people trust the wisdom of a glorified rat more than real climatologists when it comes to climate prediction, but for those of you who like to know, you can find stories about their predictions in the news. \u00a0I&#8217;m guessing that here in Georgia we will see an early spring based on how foggy it is this morning. \u00a0But then we seldom have six more weeks of winter after February 2.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/news\/groundhog-day-forecasts-and-climate-history\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> on how accurate those predictions are from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/02\/02\/how-accurate-are-groundhogs-and-8-other-animals-at-predicting-weather\/#48576c866da5\" target=\"_blank\">column<\/a> from Marshall Shepherd of UGA in <em>Forbes.com,\u00a0<\/em>and a blog <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-groundhog-day?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=7fe8dc73d2-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-7fe8dc73d2-393619445\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on EarthSky about the day&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll be watching &#8220;Groundhog Day&#8221; and eating chili made with ground chuck tonight with a bunch of meteorology students at UGA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/groundhog2015-infographic-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5948\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/groundhog2015-infographic-2016-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"groundhog2015-infographic-2016\" width=\"427\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/groundhog2015-infographic-2016-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/groundhog2015-infographic-2016-190x138.jpg 190w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/02\/groundhog2015-infographic-2016.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/bill-murray-and-groundhog.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1941\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1941\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/bill-murray-and-groundhog-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"bill murray and groundhog\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/bill-murray-and-groundhog-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/bill-murray-and-groundhog-144x138.jpg 144w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/bill-murray-and-groundhog.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2 is the day when we traditionally celebrate Groundhog Day, when groundhogs everywhere (or at least where there are active tourist bureaus) come out to determine whether or not there will be six more weeks of winter. \u00a0It amazes me that people trust the wisdom of a glorified rat more than real climatologists when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}