Ground Frog Day
Snohomish, Washington holds Ground Frog Day each year with their Meteorological Frognosticator, Snohomish Slew.
Snohomish Slew is a very large bull frog who gets center stage much like Puxtatwny Phil does in Pennsylvania on Groundhog Day. Frogorama 2010 was held on January 30, so unfortunately we have missed it for this year.
Oh well, there is always next year.
http://www.groundfrogday.org/
picture from Yahoo images.
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so the grounghog has a little competition then, who knew? sounds like a fun little festival anyway.
Posted by patty on 02/07 at 09:05 AM
Jan 30 in PA!?! They'd have to thaw Snohomish Slew out first.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/07 at 11:15 AM
i'm gonna sound like a dummy, but is it warmer in washington than pennsyvania? you are right about thawing him out expat, as frogs are cold blooded. maybe that's how he predicts the weather. if he's moving around spring is coming, if he's a frogcicle 6 more weeks of winter. 
Posted by patty on 02/07 at 12:16 PM
If you mean Washington State, then, usually, yes. Florida, however, is warmer than both. Really!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/07 at 09:57 PM
We had our winter (here in Snohomish) back in December for about two weeks. We are now in the middle of a prolonged spring. Last year we had snow from before Halloween through early May, but this year we have had none! Go figure.
Posted by Dave Hanford on 02/08 at 03:06 PM
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