Embedding the names in the graph makes it very hard to take in the data.

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Data: World Bank Data through WDI package

Tools: R, ggplot

What does "sees it's shadow" mean?

Aren't groundhogs jittery creatures that look around constantly? How would they not see their shadow?

Thanks! That's 100% non-AI-generated content right there, just me finding the best articles and descriptions on Google and stitching them together. I think they are generally very funny to read through so it's good to hear some positive feedback!

Groundhog Day is a North American holiday where groundhogs predict the arrival of spring. According to tradition, if a groundhog sees its shadow on February 2nd, it means six more weeks of winter. No shadow means an early spring.

Good catch! I have updated and we should be all good now. Thanks!!

Predictions of what? How? No wait, what?

I feel like I'm missing a lot here.

We need a good week of -20 weather to kill of the ticks.

My favorite one is Bee Cave Bob. The blurb is excellent.

I have only heard about it, but it was nice to see -- part of the reason I made the graph :)

Not really a proper answer, but a loophole/workaround:

• Make another copy of the whole table, but this time each row normalized (subtract minimum from the row then divide by (maximum - minimum)) so every row now goes 0 to 1.

• Apply a single conditional format to the entire thing, since now each row is apples to apples and you only need one

• Use this to visually navigate instead or to sort, and the left table to see the raw numbers

Haha I love how many albertaisms there are about Balzac

No shit...this will hit Canada even harder

Doesn't this image show the coldest temperatures over Canada?

You have a typo in the name of the North Georgia groundhog, labeled as "Yonah the Grounghog"

No, it’s just called ‘winter in Canada’ but someone thought they’d try to tie it to the US for fake internet points with a shitty see through globe.

Yeah, even though for this cold snap it's quite positive, and our newest warm up next week coincides with the NAO going neutral.

That link is really interesting. Especially where it says a negative NAO is typically associated with below-average temps in the Eastern US

There is only one true weather predicting groundhog and that is Punxsutawney Phil!

It keeps looping over and over again! It never ends!

Thought this was interesting

>The wintertime NAO also exhibits significant multi-decadal variability (Hurrell 1995, Chelliah and Bell 2005). For example, the negative phase of the NAO dominated the circulation from the mid-1950's through the 1978/79 winter. During this approximately 24-year interval, there were four prominent periods of at least three years each in which the negative phase was dominant and the positive phase was notably absent. In fact, during the entire period the positive phase was observed in the seasonal mean only three times, and it never appeared in two consecutive years.

>An abrupt transition to recurring positive phases of the NAO then occurred during the 1979/80 winter, with the atmosphere remaining locked into this mode through the 1994/95 winter season. During this 15-year interval, a substantial negative phase of the pattern appeared only twice, in the winters of 1984/85 and 1985/ 86. However, November 1995 - February 1996 (NDJF 95/96) was characterized by a return to the strong negative phase of the NAO. Halpert and Bell (1997; their section 3.3) recently documented the conditions accompanying this transition to the negative phase of the NAO.

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/teledoc/nao.shtml

Is this a Polar Vortex thing? Is that still going on?

Would be better if the globe wasn't see-through.

I was trying to figure out what the lines off the coast of New England were for a bit until I realized it was South America

Northern Saskatchewan here -33c this am suns out now and it’s warmed up to -24c