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Show THIESSEN AT ISSUE WITH MR. GROUNDHOG Section Director of Weather Bureau) Attacks Record of Noted Little Rodent Speculators on the weather are warned that the groundhog has fallen into dis- i repute with the United States weather j bureau. Since 1900 his record of prog- j nosticatlons has been so at variance with succeeding events, bo far as Salt Lake weather Is concerned, that A- H. Thles-sen. Thles-sen. section director of the weather bureau, bu-reau, feels that believers in the groundhog ground-hog lore are entitled to the facta. According to the antiquated groundhog ground-hog theory, fair weather is assured if the animal does not see his shadow upon emerging from hiH burrow on February 2. A sight of his shadow, however, is believed to frightvn the creature back into in-to his noie, t here to remain during six weeks of severe winter sure to follow. Mr. Tniessen douitts the power of the groundhog to determine the arrival of February 2, the animiU being ignorant, he thinks, of the Gregorian calendar, but as proof to the defenders of the groundhog ground-hog theory, lie advances the record since 1910. It follows, the condition of weather for the day being given first, followed by the weather for the succeeding six weks: February 2, l&Ou, sunny, with six weeks of warmer weather following; 1901, sunny and warmer; 1902, sunny and warmer; 1'j03, sunnv and colder; 1904. sunny and warmer; 1905. cloudy and warmer; 190o. cloudy and colder; 1907, cloudy and warmer; 190$, sunny and warmer; sunny and warmer; 1910, sunny and warmer; 1911, sunny and colder; 191-, sunny and warmer; 1913, sunny and colder; 1914. cloudy and warmer; 1915. cloudy with intermissions of sunshine, the weather of the next six weeks to be determined. de-termined. It will be seen that the groundhog lore proved correct in only five cases out of fifteen, the theorv holding good in the years 1905, 1907, 1911, 1913 and 1914, but failing in the other years. |