When will winter end? Groundhogs make predictions of spring in Canada. globalnews.ca

famous and beloved prophet spring Ready to make your predictions on Thursday morning.

it is Groundhog DayAnd according to folklore, a groundhog will crawl out of its burrow and if it doesn’t see its shadow, spring is just around the corner, whereas if it does and retreats, we can expect six more weeks of winter. Can

Celebrity groundhog Shubenacadie Sam made Canada’s first prediction shortly after sunrise over Nova Scotia, followed by Ontario’s Warton Wiley.

Willie’s host in the south Bruce Peninsula says the groundhog is once again white-flecked according to local legend, with city spokeswoman Danielle Edwards saying it brought in a “sensible” one with the more traditional brown color last year. He searched for a replacement.

Willie was nowhere to be seen on the crucial day in 2021 and the city later acknowledged the beloved forecaster had died, launching a search that ended last summer when the city says he was found by a man from Cleveland, Ohio. Was able to get the white-haired groundhog.

In a playful and peer-reviewed study published by the American Meteorological Society, researchers at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, say groundhogs are “beyond a shadow of a doubt” no better than chance at predicting the arrival of spring. Are.