This cracked me up! Sheryl Rieck sheryl.ri...@gmail.com
"You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime, you just might find you get what you need" Rolling Stones > On Feb 2, 2022, at 1:35 PM, Lee H. Skinner <skin...@thuntek.net> wrote: > > Every February 2 -- the halfway point between the winter solstice and > spring equinox -- a bleary-eyed groundhog is hoisted from its burrow > into the daylight in towns across the United States and Canada. If its > human handler proclaims that the rodent sees its shadow (as Punxsutawney > Phil did this year), then six more weeks of winter await; if it doesn't, > spring will come early -- or so the tradition goes. > > But we don't need this groundhog's communicated advice! At 7:25 am on > February 2 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, determine whether or not it is > cloudy or clear. If the sun is shining, then we'll have an early Spring. > If clouds obscure the sun, we'll have six more weeks of Winter. > > We have therefore eliminated one link in the chain of events that > previously determined this prediction. We have also eliminated the false > positive in case Phil is too sleepy to notice his shadow (he may be > looking in the wrong direction), or even a false negative if someone is > trying to get a better observation by shining a bright light upon the > creature on a dark cloudy morning where he might see his shadow from the > artificial light source. > > Lee Skinner, not a meteorologist nor an animal behaviorist > > > (Not off topic, as Phil's burrow might be considered to be a cave by small > cavers) > > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
