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The 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard [3] [4] [5] was a powerful and historic winter storm that affected large swaths of the United States and Canada from January 31 to February 2, 2011, especially on Groundhog Day.
On October 21, 2010, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center issued its US winter outlook. It predicted a La Niña to form. The Outlook predicted colder and wetter than average winter for the Pacific Northwest and Northern plains.
Meanwhile, the 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard caused record snowfall in Chicago and forced the city to shutdown. Because this was a La Niña, it brought California the wettest December on record and the summer of 2011 was California's wettest. The Pacific Northwest saw 2011 being one of the coolest, wettest years on record, with temperatures still ...
However, for a few thousand Chicago commuters in 2011, no drive home from work ever dragged on quite as it did on Groundhog Day -- nor will any other likely top it. Starting on Jan. 31 of that ...
New York is covered in ankle-deep slush, a fitting metaphor for 2010. So with that in mind, I headed over to Times Square for the fourth annual Good Riddance Day, where participants could ...
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Statistical analysis of groundhog predictions show that Stormy Marmot and Poor Richard (a groundhog based in York, Pennsylvania) have the best correlation to observed weather trends. "When Stormy Marmot predicts an early spring, we can expect March to be on average 6 °F warmer, and April to be 2.5 °F warmer.
Unfortunately, we doubt Bill Murray will be making an appearance in FrontierVille this Groundhog Day, so a shiny new set of Goals will have to do. Zynga has decided to celebrate arguably the ...