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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		What's the Deal with Groundhog Day This Year?
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:31
	Publish Date:		2019-02-25 05:00:00
	Description:		Depending on how you look at it, maybe groundhog day has come and gone, and maybe it hasn’t. In this week's episode of Wildlife Matters, the Masked Biologist takes a peek into the den of the groundhog. I have heard a number of people comment in recent weeks about how wrong the groundhog was about not seeing his shadow and winter coming to a fast close. I haven’t looked at the running history of Groundhog Day and the accuracy of the weather predictions, but I would guess that the accuracy of this prediction would be about 50%, which is about the same accuracy as a coin toss. I suppose I will have to look into it further someday. However, you might want to take into consideration the fact that normally a groundhog would not emerge from its den in early February—it would still be deep in hibernation. Here in Wisconsin, you might know groundhogs better as woodchucks. Where I went to college out west, we called them marmots. The woodchuck is Wisconsin’s largest member of the squirrel family
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