On Groundhogs.

So Wiarton Willie tells us we will have an early spring in 2011 but the weather outside tells me differently.

Punxsutawney Phil with official groundhog handlers.

Sure we aren't having the "Snowmaggedon" the weatherman predicted for most parts of Ontario but it's still blistering outside today and I, for one, hope the little fur-ball's prediction is right.

According to a study by the gaurdian.co.uk the groundhog has been wrong a lot more then he has been right.

The study took the majority of the predictions from all of the weather predicting groundhogs and then "calculated the mean average snowfall for a February in North America using data from the last 10 years, then we subtracted this average from the snow-cover for the particular year," the gaurdian article says. "This gives us an indication of the severity of the winter for that year relative to the other years. The conclusion of our little study is that the groundhogs have only predicted the length of winter correctly three times in the last 10 years."

Check out the full study here.