Punxsutawney Phil Sees Early Spring

[The Central Scrutinizer]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/02/phil.shadow.ap/index.html

It's true! :)

[dogguy]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/02/phil.shadow.ap/index.html

It's true! :)

Yup, seems like good science to me. Certainly belongs here. :D

[firecoins]

Lets get rid of the National Weather Service and replace them with a groundhog.

[dogguy]

Lets get rid of the National Weather Service and replace them with a groundhog.

No, keep them, but make them study the groundhog in detail to ensure that they learn.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Yup, seems like good science to me. Certainly belongs here. :D

It is!

[baron]

Lets get rid of the National Weather Service and replace them with a groundhog.

If your weather service is anything like ours in the UK then it's not a bad idea. A little while ago I did an experiment for 3 weeks where I monitored the bbc.co.uk weather site (which supposedly uses some of the most powerful forecasting h/w and s/w in the world) and compared their weekly predictions with a set of completely random predictions (I threw a die). Although I didn't attempt to quantify the results, my method yeilded far greater success.

[tsg]

That's the deal with the shadow? I thought it was when Jesus came out of the cave on Easter Sunday. Man, was I way off ....

[Bikewer]

I certainly can't give any creedence to Puxatawny Phil. How can a groundhog presume to forecast for the entire country?

No, it's the local groundhog report that needs to be taken into account. Unfortunately, our zoo rarely rouses the poor critter from it's slumbers....