It’s Groundhog Day.
But a Lakehead University professor says it’s not very reliable for telling if we’re going to have a short or long winter.
Dr. Michael Rennie and his students recently studied the accuracy of Groundhog Day predictions.
They determined that flipping a coin does as good a job as predicting the arrival of spring as these furry rodents.
Dr. Rennie found that the predictions of groundhogs were just 50%.
Canada’s two most famous weather prognosticators, Wiarton Willie and Shubenacadie Sam are split on whether we’ll have an early spring.
Willie says yes, Sam says no.
