Today it snowed for the first time this year. Apparently in other parts of England there was thick enough snow to prevent the schools from opening, but here there was not that much. In the center of town, most of it had melted by lunchtime (despite the fact that it was continuously snowing all day). Perhaps tonight some more will stick to the roads.

It is turning out the Geoff's prediction was accurate. Since I didn't have any groundhogs available on Groundhog Day, we had a little reenactment ceremony outside of work using a stuffed anteater named Geoff and he came out of a Santa hat. Since it was a bright, sunny day he did see his shadow, and predicted six weeks of winter. No one really understood Groundhog's Day, so I thought a reenactment was the best idea. It hardly has felt like winter up until that day (which was also very warm). However this week the temperature crashed down to freezing, and now it is even snowing. Seems like Geoff has been pretty accurate for week 1 at least!