The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum / Wiarton Willie Predicts Early Spring!

**Posted by paterson1** February 2, 2025 10:46 am

Let's hope it's true...https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/groundhog-day-prediction-spring-wiarton-willie-1.7446052#:~:text=Wiarton%20Willie%20has%20predicted%20an,six%20more%20weeks%20of%20winter.

**Posted by paterson1** February 2, 2025 10:49 am

And a roundup from The Weather Network..https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/forecasts/groundhog-day-2025-results-see-them-here

**Posted by paterson1** February 2, 2025 11:06 am

**Posted by Easily Amused** February 2, 2025 11:26 am

ACC's Algoma Compass has barely laid up in Owen Sound! Now they'll be shipping back out! 😁

(Why is it every year I have to recheck if it's shadow or no shadow that dictates the call? 🤔)

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**Posted by Easily Amused** February 2, 2025 11:29 am

paterson1 wrote:

🤣👍🏽

**Posted by Scarboroughbluffsradiof99** February 2, 2025 11:49 am

No!Willy! its going to be an early summer!
Soon, Canada's going to be as hot as delhi or dubai.
Now, we are more like budapest here in southern ontario.
And soon, florida will get snowstorms.

**Posted by Scarboroughbluffsradiof99** February 2, 2025 11:52 am

Easily Amused wrote:
ACC's Algoma Compass has barely laid up in Owen Sound! Now they'll be shipping back out! 😁

(Why is it every year I have to recheck if it's shadow or no shadow that dictates the call? 🤔)

Instead, check snowfall or no snowfall.
The growndhog is mostly rong.
Last year, I don't remember a big snowfall so on may 24 we had a delhi or dubai like heetwave.
This year, we might get spring.
Lets whate until this year's may 24

**Posted by Paul Jeffries** February 2, 2025 11:58 am

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is wanting to do away with using groundhogs to predict the seasons.

PETA wants Punxsutawney Phil replaced with ‘weather reveal’ cake on Groundhog Day

PJ

**Posted by Scarboroughbluffsradiof99** February 2, 2025 12:21 pm

Paul Jeffries wrote:
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is wanting to do away with using groundhogs to predict the seasons.

PETA wants Punxsutawney Phil replaced with ‘weather reveal’ cake on Groundhog Day

PJ

Tipical left wing peta.
But, there right about this, the grownd hogs are mostly rong.
Did willy predict last year's India like heetwave?
No! he's to woried about predicting spring.

**Posted by Scarboroughbluffsradiof99** February 2, 2025 12:25 pm

Binson Echorec wrote:
When can we do away with these silly traditions and non-events?

I know!
Canada's weather has changed drasticly from even when I was a little boy.
We might become like florida, India or the UAE, but more likely Florida or India.
Last year was hot and dry with hevvy rains mixxed in.
We did not get a real spring.
We went from winter to summer.

**Posted by turkeytop** February 2, 2025 1:09 pm

Having lived a large part of my life on the Bruce Peninsula, can say with some certainty, Wiarton Willie is a pathological liar.

**Posted by kevjo** February 2, 2025 1:42 pm

Binson Echorec wrote:
When can we do away with these silly traditions and non-events?

When they stop bringing money into their respective local economies.

**Posted by paterson1** February 2, 2025 1:55 pm

turkeytop wrote:
Having lived a large part of my life on the Bruce Peninsula, can say with some certainty, Wiarton Willie is a pathological liar.

hahahaha..

**Posted by betaylored** February 2, 2025 3:16 pm

The real question (for me at least) is "weather" or not to rewatch Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in "Groundhog Day" today and then have that earworm hanging around for hours and hours because of the song he wakes up to over and over.

https://youtu.be/XD2ZC11pPPQ?si=ZR27p6K06--nvWR2

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**Posted by newsguy1** February 2, 2025 5:34 pm

Personally I like the groundhogs.
Something silly to report in the dead of the dismal winter.
I covered Willie once, but not the year where the organizers covered up that he had died, and they used a stuffed groundhog to try to fool the public.
You can't make stuff like that up.