One groundhog won't be reporting in - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fred-la-marmotte-die...
Show HN: Groundhog-day.com – structured groundhog data
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Re: Show HN: Groundhog-day.com – structured groundhog data
#12Does groundhogs not exists outside of North America (or more specifically, Canada and the US) or is the data just harder to gather?
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#13Really nice!
I'm confused though. The placard says 'early spring' for 2023, but clicking on it, the split is 26/29 early spring vs long winter. Am I reading this wrong or is the placard wrong?
Re: Show HN: Groundhog-day.com – structured groundhog data
#14One groundhog won't be reporting in - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fred-la-marmotte-die...
When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life.
RIP Fred la marmotte
Re: Show HN: Groundhog-day.com – structured groundhog data
#15I didn't know there were multiple groundhogs. Very eclectic idea.
Same here, I mostly know about the event because of the Bill Murray movie.
Re: Show HN: Groundhog-day.com – structured groundhog data
#16Does groundhogs not exists outside of North America (or more specifically, Canada and the US) or is the data just harder to gather?
Not naturally no, according to Wikipedia. Plenty of other marmots though (like Murmeltiere in the European Alps), although I don't think those can predict the seasons.
Re: Show HN: Groundhog-day.com – structured groundhog data
#17Really nice! I'm confused though. The placard says 'early spring' for 2023, but clicking on it, the split is 26/29 early spring vs long winter. Am I reading this wrong or is the placard wrong?
You, sir, have identified a bug. Just pushed an update to fix this.
If you look at the past 3 years, they have all been "early spring": https://groundhog-day.com/predictions
So the logic that was there didn't actually work properly, but I never noticed it before.
Re: Show HN: Groundhog-day.com – structured groundhog data
#18Does groundhogs not exists outside of North America (or more specifically, Canada and the US) or is the data just harder to gather?
Nobody else seems to do this outside of the US and Canada.
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#19Remarkable how in the 1910s and 1920s we had uninterrupted stretches of extra winters decades in a row, but now early spring dominates. Clear evidence of global warming.
That's a huge insight to take away. Nevertheless, we still have climate-denier groundhogs consistently predicting winter and being wrong about it (cough Phil cough).
Hopefully, this site helps shine a light on these unscientific groundhogs.
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#20Made my own map:
brew install datasette sqlite-utils
curl 'https://groundhog-day.com/api/v1/predictions?year=2023' | \
jq .predictions | \
sqlite-utils insert day.db groundhogs - --flatten
sqlite-utils convert day.db groundhogs \
groundhog_coordinates --multi 'return {
"latitude": value.split(",")[0],
"longitude": value.split(",")[1]
}'
datasette install datasette-cluster-map
datasette day.db
sqlite-utils docs here: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html