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There is a very good possibility that today was Richesnay. All the signs were there. The sudden blowing, swirling, voluminous, late winter snowfall that surely marks the coming of spring. While I am certainly not one to scoff at Punxsutawney Phil's prediction this year of 6 more weeks of Winter....

Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated in Pennsylvania, New York, Middlesbrough, England (with founder members David Probert, Peter Algie and Paul Brunton) and other locations on February 2. In weather lore, if a groundhog, emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather...