Groundhog Day
written by: Eric Shelman
Groundhog’s predictions
winter weather, winter’s
end, shadow or not
Phil, the groundhog comes
Out from hole, Punxsutawney
Pennsylvania, state
February second
Gobbler’s knob, Punxsutawney
Pennsylvania, shadow, not
Badger and groundhog
waiting rodent’s forecast
seasons continue, or end
Germany’s
Religious
Original holiday called Candlemas Day
Used a badger seeing its shadow or
Not, predicting second winter, or
Deeming spring equinox
Hedgehogs, badgers were replaced by
groundhogs
Once
Germany’s Candlemas Day, came to the U.S. because it was not native to eastern North America
Dens
Arrived and altered in America
Yearly
Atmospheres airy accuracy, once
Bad weather, burrow, barometer, broadcast
Chilly, climate, cloudy, cold, conditions
Celsius, centigrade, chill, circulation,
climate, climb out, cloudy, cold front,
color condensation, conditions,
conversion, Cumulus, cyclical
Degrees, density, detection, dew, disruption
drizzle
Emerge, early spring, environment, erupt,
extreme
February, foretell, forcast, Fahrenheit,
flurries, frost, freezing, fog, front
Groundhog, gage, ground, gusty
Hibernate, hole, holiday, hedgehog, hail
harbinger, hibernal, humidity, heat
Imaginative, impact, influence, instruction
instruments, inversion, Isobar, Isotherm
January, jet stream, judgment
Keenness
Look out, late spring, latitude, longitude
lightening, liquid
Mammal, marmot, meteorology, mild, myth
measurement, melt, Mercury,
meteorology mist, moisture
Natural, nature, normal
Omen, ominous, observation, Occluded front, Occlusion, Ozone
Punxsutawney Phil, Pennsylvania, portend
predictions, particles, precipitation
prediction, pressure, prevailing
Prognosticate
Quests, questionings, quickly, quiet
Rodent, retreat, radar, rain, rainbow,
reflection, regional
See, second, sunny, shadow, sign, signal,
sprung, stormy, story, six weeks,
saturation scale, scientific, scientists,
seasonal, sentinel, severe, snow, squall
Temperatures, tunnel, thaw, thermometer
thunderstorms
Underground, upwind
Vapor, veer, velocity, vernal
Warm, warn, warning, watch, weather
winter, woodchuck, whistlepigs
Xenial
Yearly
Zephyr, zone
Singing, praising, worshiping, Phil
the groundhog, harbinger
awaiting his wonderful predicting skill
ceremoniously celebrating its decision
by their arbiter
Groundhog Day
Groundhogs weather predictions
He sees his shadow or not
Awaiting him to rise up
Winter’s continuation, Spring’s beginning
Chill
groundhog
religious
traditional
celebrated ceremoniously year
Den
weather
predictions
climate staying
end
There was once a badger who foretold
Winter Solistice’s end, Spring Equinox
beginning gold
became a ground hog once in America
predicting either six more weeks of
winter, esoterica
or Spring’s beginning, by seeing its
shadow or not, behold.
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