This is the best we can do?

The tradition of Groundhog Day goes back for decades. It has become a novelty act over the last 30 years more than an actual prediction of weather. Since records have been kept in 1887, the groundhog has seen his shadow 90% of the time. Matching that up with official weather records, he is about 40% accurate when it comes to weather. At first glance you may think that his forecasting skills are lacking, but compare him to your local weatherman. Not much difference. Plus you only have to deal with the groundhog once a year as compared to a calendar full of horrendous 7 day outlook predictions. So I say to you, lets make this fine rodent head of the weather channel. At least then there would be an excuse for lousy accuracy.