Watch: US and Canada at loggerheads after groundhogs disagree on climate forecast – Worldwide Dispatch

After a yr dominated by American speak of creating Canada the ’51st state’, even their respective weather-predicting groundhogs could not woodchuck their variations apart.

On Groundhog Day, 2 February, Philadelphia’s Punxsutawney Phil and Ontario’s Wierton Willie gave competing climate forecasts. Whereas the Canadian woodchuck mentioned spring was not far away, the US hog advised a crowd of hundreds they’d be in for an additional six weeks of winter.

We have been right here earlier than: the 2 oracles disagreed on final yr’s Groundhog Day, too.

However each groundhogs can agree on one factor – getting their forecasts fallacious. Phil has successful charge of simply 35%, whereas Willie is even worse, at simply 29%.