Whereas many of the nation appears to Punxsutawney Phil out in Pennsylvania as their go to weather-forecasting rodent, there’s one other “seer of seers” out in Colorado with a aptitude for the dramatic in relation to making his predictions.
Boulder, Colorado’s personal top-hat carrying yellow-bellied marmot meteorologist named Flatiron Freddy emerged from his burrow this morning and made an Olympic curling-inspired entrance (prior to now he has entered by canoe, skis and zip line) earlier than issuing his prediction that Colorado will expertise an early spring.
Freddy could not have the identical identify recognition as his cousin Phil however he actually is aware of the best way to make an entrance:
Open Area and Mountain Parks’ Flatiron Freddy occasion on Groundhog Day is a unusual, uniquely Boulder custom that has occurred for greater than 15 years. Within the early 2010s, Flatiron Freddy existed peacefully as a deceased, stuffed yellow-bellied marmot – a detailed relative to the groundhog – in Boulder’s Flagstaff Nature Middle, the place stuffed animal mounts are sometimes saved till the spring. One winter Freddy was inadvertently unnoticed, and his fur was broken and was about to be faraway from the middle. Rangers felt he deserved extra.
Since then, Freddy has grow to be a part of an annual Boulder Groundhog Day custom. In recent times, Freddy has made his approach out of his burrow every year in varied methods, akin to snowboarding down a path, driving a automotive out of his burrow, and even by zip line in a canoe. It’s as much as Rangers to interpret Freddy’s climate forecast.
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