So, I've been forced to trek out as much as my training as permissible bunkered below ground in my aunt's basement while the rest of suburban Philadelphia has been glazed over day after day with a fresh coat of snow & ice. There is good news in the forecast however—well, not so much in a meteorological sense, but in a traditional one— since that lovable 125 year old li'l rascal Punxsutawney Phil has gone on record as noting we are in for an early spring.
He saw no shadow when emerging from his hog-cave this frigid wintery morning. I find the great irony in all of this is that if he's right, we only have 2 more weeks of egregious winter weather to make it through, but for me, with a 20 miler on the calendar for this weekend I need the spring break now, because in 2 weeks, I'll be 6,800 miles away and I don't know if Groundhog premonitions apply to international weather systems. I'm sure as I leave Pennsylvania, I'll take with me the knowledge that even if not scientifically accurate, at the very least, what I hear the Groundhog saying is "I know, I hate all this snow too, so let's be done with it already". He's a hog after my own heart.
I believe I read somewhere today that the groundhog is only right 38% of the time. Thus you'd be more likely to have a short winter if his result was that there'd be a long one.
ReplyDeleteLuckily, there's has not been a lick of snow on the ground here in Tokyo (although it flurried for an hour once; Felicia noticed it, but not me).
Yeah, it snowed briefly on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed that the weather in Tokyo stays as lovely as it has been all the way through Tokyo Marathon!