How long have people relied on a chipmunk on steriods for weather predictions?

Good question. Punxsutawney Phil of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania has been making forecasts for some 121 years beginning in 1906. He does this every February the 2nd. As a meteorologist I would say that basing the next six weeks of weather on the sky condition on Feb 2nd is probably not a very good persistence forecast. I am sure that using climatology would prove to be better.How long have people relied on a chipmunk on steriods for weather predictions?
Don't call that creature a chipmunk. Punxsatawney Phil chucks wood, if a woodchuck chucks wood, while a chipmunk munks chips; that is, if a chipmunk really does munk chips.





I think it has been since sometime in the 1830s.How long have people relied on a chipmunk on steriods for weather predictions?
A really long time. How long have athletes depended on steriods?
is it not one of the most bizarre traditions!!! its pretty funny... is it more of a east coast thing... do californians even know that we have punxitawnee phil?
I think it's a few houndred years old or so. It's not as strange as the ';roadkill festival'; we have here in West Virginia. You should come on down and try some freshly flattened critters... Ramps are pretty tastey too.
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