Six More Weeks of Winter

"This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather."

That line is from the classic Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day. Jonah Goldberg wrote a tribute piece to that movie which you can read here.

Once again Phil saw his shadow:

Don't put those cold weather clothes in storage just yet.

Punxsutawney Phil, the internationally known weather prognosticating groundhog, saw his shadow this morning and predicted six more weeks of winter.

Thousands gathered on Gobbler's Knob in Jefferson County to await the groundhog's annual prediction. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club said Phil has seen his shadow 98 times since 1887, hasn't seen it 15 times, and there are no records for nine years.

Officially, the vernal equinox occurs at 1:32 p.m. March 20, marking the arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere -- six weeks, four days from today.

How could he not see his shadow? That's one pretty big rat.