Yeah beachfront view.

Aka mud season

This groundhog needs to go, he’s too powerful

With such a warm winter, we're gonna be covered in ticks this year.

Phil is wrong most of the time, so it's always safe to assume the opposite of whatever he says is true.

“Groundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition of Candlemas, when clergy would bless and distribute candles needed for winter. The candles represented how long and cold the winter would be. Germans expanded on this concept by selecting an animal—the hedgehog—as a means of predicting weather. Once they came to America, German settlers in Pennsylvania continued the tradition, although they switched from hedgehogs to groundhogs, which were plentiful in the Keystone State.”

Pennsylvania's second most annoying groundhog.

We are to write messages/reach out to our state politicians asking to look into why our critical infrastructure bills are doubled over a year.

I have done so and ask others to as well. I find it hard to believe that PPLs cost structure has gotten so out of hand that a doubling of their prices is warranted.

So, since he's right only 40% of the time, isn't it more likely to be an early spring?

you can just.... drive up there for the weekend. no need to die! super cheap motels/rooms up there, or invest in a cheap tent. could even just sleep in your car! do it!

that's like your opinion, man....

But, how? What are we to do? I am one person and I need infrastructure. They know they have us over a barrel.

Same here. Blizzard every couple of years and bitter cold. I like the warmer weather, but it's kinda scary. All fun and games until PA is a coastal state.

Yup. Just moved up here last summer and was all prepared. Now I’m looking around like Vince Vega in Pulp Fiction.

When is winter gonna start?

Is that galaxy Andromeda? To be that big it almost has to be I would think?

Puts us right in line with… the equinox. Lol. Pennsylvania is so fucking dumb and this uniquely PA holiday proves just how much.

It almost has to be Andromeda I think?

Winter haha... It isn't winter if your best snowfall was a dusting that lasted an hour.... By far the mildest winter I've seen in 39 years....

Where the hell are the 2+ ft blizzards at??

Lived next to a lovely field for 25 years. 3 years ago, a McMansion development started building. 40+ houses now. There's a strip of scrub between our properties, and we put two cameras in it. Fox, deer, and even a coyote one night, using that scrub to move through the neighborhood. Love to see them, but it's really sad how many developments there are here.

My biggest worry is I'll wake up one morning and there will be a dead deer in front of my house, traffic is terrible.

I know, I'm 50 now and in my teens and early 20s we were lucky to have one or two warm days all winter. I feel like snow was on the ground at least half of the winter.

That marmot is a lousy predictor.

That would align with the celestial sequence of seasons. I believe the spring equinox is March 20th. Who gets advice from a ground dwelling rodent anyways? All woodchucks do is ruin my garden. No sanctuary for woodchucks.

Snowflakes, literally!

Have we even had six weeks of winter to begin with? Feels like late fall/early spring with a few snowy days thrown in.