Groundhog Day in Thomasburg

Had a searcher this morning looking to know how Groundhog Day in Canada worked out. The page that came up was my archive page from last February (here's a link to the relevant post). Well, that's just wrong. So I thought I'd better put up a report on the situation today. (And take the opportunity to correct an error in the earlier post--the identification of a prickly ash as a black locust...)

Were a groundhog to emerge in Thomasburg this morning it would definitely not see its shadow. Wiarton Willie, concurs.

Light snow continues.
As I wrote last year, to us the prediction of six more weeks of winter sounds more like a promise than a curse. End of winter in the middle of March? Sounds good to me. Especially this year when we had no winter until just a few short weeks ago--six more's a cakewalk. So when the groundhog predicts an early spring instead, I hardly know what to make of it.

But maybe the groundhog isn't really a good prognosticator. The Straight Dope suggests perhaps it's more often wrong than right. What?!?