{"id":61,"date":"2012-02-02T16:43:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weather.bluevistaventures.ca\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2012-02-16T17:14:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:14:26","slug":"groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/groundhog-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Groundhog Day weather predictions have been going on for centuries.\u00a0\u00a0The following information\u00a0is from\u00a0the book &#8220;Weather Wisdom&#8221; by Albert Lee (ISBN 0-385-01770-7).\u00a0The date February 2\u00a0originally was known as Candlemas Day which began in the early days of Catholicism as the feast of the purification of Mary.\u00a0 This date for\u00a0 was believed to be a &#8220;weather breeder&#8221;, a period of change in which future weather patterns are set.<\/p>\n<p>February 2 in our neck of the woods was a clear sunny day.\u00a0 So according to weather folklore,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;If Candlemas Day be fine and clear,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We shall have winter half the year.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With our winter so far being very warm and pleasant for the most part, guess we are due for winter weather.\u00a0 So this probably means spring will be colder than normal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundhog Day weather predictions have been going on for centuries.\u00a0\u00a0The following information\u00a0is from\u00a0the book &#8220;Weather Wisdom&#8221; by Albert Lee (ISBN 0-385-01770-7).\u00a0The date February 2\u00a0originally was known as Candlemas Day which began in the early days of Catholicism as the feast of the purification of Mary.\u00a0 This date for\u00a0 was believed to be a &#8220;weather breeder&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}