| Show fIGURES PROVES POS GROUND VOC DOST Ol 11 NOW I ABOUT WEATHER When lien Mr 11 Groundhog comes comES out of his alleged burrow burrow- tomorrow to look 1001 for his Ills shadow Salt Lake will 1 pet get rt a glimpse of or another fakel faker according to A A. A It I. I Thies- Thies n. ac-n. I director rector of the local weather wather bure bureau u. u Tradition toils each February 2 the sto story of how the groundhog or wood- wood huck conies comes oles out to take tale a 1 look 1001 around It I t he lie sees his shadow he hikes hIrs back hack because because be be- cause ause he lie Ie sa says s 's it I means six weeks more more of hail had weather w If I ho lie 11 mInes does dols not see spa it itle itlie It lie he assured of or six le st stays s 's out confidently a wEeks of or fair warm weal weather herIn her I In th tho past ten tEn years sail said Mr Tr Thies- Thies I SPI the time groundhog has baa nearly ala always s 's lila his guess s. gueI and therefore we nat nat- nat assume a that he lie Is 11 another green goods roods man maii mal In that time tinte the tIm groundhog has succeeded In iii hitting the mark only three times Seven SevEn times timE he hI has Imas failed to weather belag beng be- be o deliver lElyer the tho goods the bEIng bE- bE lag Ing ng Just time tho reverse I to- to what It should he been in compliance with his shadow I yarn In 1000 1900 OO he hue hE got his worst blow and amid andi i right then and there Salt Lake should have haye got wise to the fact that he was as a fraud francS He lIe saw W his shadow and hiked hack ack lot into the ground A prettier Jr six hl titan than weeks s line has f never nevet- been e t those hose after lila Ills IJ departure Per l From rol 1900 until ull Him lO 1 he failed utterly to get anywhere anywhere any any- where near the right dope In 1903 1003 1103 It Is not certain whether whethEr he saw aw hi lila his shadow or not all al depending upon what time of day he ventured out There Ther Is nothing on 01 record to show that I I Irh Th s Oh io was St S per cent r-nt sunshine hile that day clay an and amid therefore it is I presumed time the ground- ground link saw his shadow If I he lie did Jie Jle won Worm his bet hEt because there thele WN wei-e six weeks of old cold weather immediately afterward his In In 1905 tho the groundhog gi did not see shadow shado and the thE weather following was warmer and again In 1007 1907 the same conditions con con- prevailed l Aside preal from rain these times lr Mr Groundhog Groundhog Ground Ground- hog hoA has missed his guess The following table compiled by Mr Thiessen shows tho the record ma made e by the weather since 1900 Weather r in iii 11 six weeks Year YEar Days Day's Day weather following 1900 1000 Sunshine Warmer armEr 1901 1001 Sunshine Warmer 1903 1003 Sunshine Warmer Varner 1903 19 9 p. p c. c cloudy Colder 1904 Sunshine Warmer 1905 Cloudy Cloudy Warmer armr 1906 Clo Cloudy ld Colder 1907 Cloudy Warmer Sunshine Warmer 1909 Sunshine Warmer Tomorrow Mr Groundhog will l not see lila bin shadow r because a ur R it J will fl h bb s snowing hard or OJ at least that is what the weather I and er i. arrows and s s Ilow 11 ought to know know Mi iii- h scoffs atthe nt at the suggest suggestion that nun may bo be Its t means an anything shout about the thE next six w weeks stating stat stat- tit ing log that he lie hI wouldn't put a a gram of eon con In a I weather prophet with Uh a record record record rec rec- ord such h 8 as that MI Mr Groundhog has in Salt tL Lake e. e |
