It wasn’t the warmest of days for a groundhog to come out of his hole and give us a weather prediction for this year. However, the groundhog in Georgia known as the General Leebraved the 28 degree weather yesterday and did emerge for about 300 people that was wanting to get a glimpse at the famous furry creature. Other states have their own groundhog too, but we know the General Lee is the one we can trust and rely on.

The General Lee in Georgia did not see his shadow on Groundhog Day. What does this mean? It means that winter is coming to an end soon and the people in the Peach State and other parts of the South can expect a early spring. The Groundhog Days that do provide a shadow, means we have another 6 weeks of cold, winter weather ahead. Luckily this did not happen on Tuesday and the General Lee could not find his shadow anywhere. This is great news for those that don’t like winter weather and everyone can relax now, knowing that the days of spring are right around the corner. The General Lee has did his great work for this year and has made a lot of people happy. We won’t get to see the General Lee until February 2nd of 2011 and that will be when he makes his next weather prediction. Most of the other groundhogs agreed with the General Lee and most of the country is happy right now. It seems one groundhog didn’t get the memo and actually seen his shadow yesterday. The Pennsylvania groundhog known as Punxsutawney Phil did see his shadow yesterday and people in Pennsylvania will have to keep the winter coats around for a bit longer. It seems the other groundhogs around the nation like Buckeye Chuck, Jimmy the Groundhog, and Staten Island Chuck agreed with the Georgia Groundhog General Lee and none of them seen their shadow either.  

Down in Macon, Georgia a news writer for Fox 24 in Macon, made one very observant notice about Groundhog Day. Celeste Smith from Fox 24 caught a glimpse of this week’s forecast and saw that a lot of rain would be taking place in Georgia later this week. Smith noted that the General Lee did not address that issue and it’s unclear how the groundhog from Georgia feels about the dreary weather forecasted for Georgia later on in the week. We may have to sit down with the groundhogs and see if they can start giving us a better idea on the weather conditions for the first week or two of February and see if we can milk a little bit more knowledge out of them. This could create problems and they may ask for pay raises and more holiday time and give meteorologists world-wide a lot more to do in their current jobs. As for this year in 2010, all we can say for sure is that the General Lee and other groundhogs are done forecasting and spring will be arriving shortly.

In other news today, we have learned that Pennsylvania is now searching for a new groundhog!