What better way to go green than by going right into Spring in January?
From the NY Times:
Spring is coming early, if it hasn't already arrived.
Staten Island Chuck literally rolled out of his wooden hovel on Thursday morning but didn't see his shadow, signaling an early spring for the city.
Amid chants of "Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!" Mayor Bloomberg translated the hog's weather prediction, along with an added forecast for Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Chuck didn’t see his shadow.
"Six more weeks of warm weather and sun and a Giants win," Bloomberg translated.
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Chuck's call put him at odds with that other famed rodent prognosticator, Punxsutawney Phil, who spotted his shadow at Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania just minutes before Chuck's big moment.
Judging by temperatures in the northeast recently, it appears that Chuck — whose formal name is Charles G. Hogg — has a keener weather sense than his cousin in the Keystone State.
Weather researches have said that this winter has been the warmest since 1932, with temperatures in the northeast at least 5 degrees above normal on average.
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Chuck appeared more mellow than usual on Thursday morning, unfazed by the glaring television lights, dozens of gathered bigwigs and gaggle of schoolkids chanting his name.
"Hold him like a baby!" one child in the audience yelled, as the mayor handled the woodchuck, wearing his now-customary heavy leather gloves.
"I liked it,” said Sydney Price, 11. “I was surprised by how many people came and I liked how everyone was chanting."
Chuck has been performing the annual Groundhog Day ritual for three decades, and the Staten Island Zoo claims he’s made the right call 80% of the time.
Over the past few years, he and the mayor have had a rocky relationship.
The portly critter famously bit the Bloomberg on the finger in 2009, and last year, Bloomberg called him a "son of a b----."
During the ceremony, Bloomberg playfully taunted Chuck, waving a gloved finger in front of his face, but warned the woodchuck to keep his incisors to himself.
"If I get bit again ... I will bite back," the mayor said.
Staten Island Chuck literally rolled out of his wooden hovel on Thursday morning but didn't see his shadow, signaling an early spring for the city.
Amid chants of "Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!" Mayor Bloomberg translated the hog's weather prediction, along with an added forecast for Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Chuck didn’t see his shadow.
"Six more weeks of warm weather and sun and a Giants win," Bloomberg translated.
PHOTOS: THE WORLD'S TINIEST METEOROLOGIST
Chuck's call put him at odds with that other famed rodent prognosticator, Punxsutawney Phil, who spotted his shadow at Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania just minutes before Chuck's big moment.
Judging by temperatures in the northeast recently, it appears that Chuck — whose formal name is Charles G. Hogg — has a keener weather sense than his cousin in the Keystone State.
Weather researches have said that this winter has been the warmest since 1932, with temperatures in the northeast at least 5 degrees above normal on average.
PHOTOS: WHERE ARE THE STARS OF 'GROUNDHOG DAY' NOW?
Chuck appeared more mellow than usual on Thursday morning, unfazed by the glaring television lights, dozens of gathered bigwigs and gaggle of schoolkids chanting his name.
"Hold him like a baby!" one child in the audience yelled, as the mayor handled the woodchuck, wearing his now-customary heavy leather gloves.
"I liked it,” said Sydney Price, 11. “I was surprised by how many people came and I liked how everyone was chanting."
Chuck has been performing the annual Groundhog Day ritual for three decades, and the Staten Island Zoo claims he’s made the right call 80% of the time.
Over the past few years, he and the mayor have had a rocky relationship.
The portly critter famously bit the Bloomberg on the finger in 2009, and last year, Bloomberg called him a "son of a b----."
During the ceremony, Bloomberg playfully taunted Chuck, waving a gloved finger in front of his face, but warned the woodchuck to keep his incisors to himself.
"If I get bit again ... I will bite back," the mayor said.
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