... it's Candlemas Day ... And for all you Latin teachers out there ... you can present this Latin 'distich' quoted by Thomas Browne in Robert Chambers Book of Days (the quoting of) which predates Punxsutawney Phil (and Wiarton Willy, and the plethora of other rodents):
Si sol splendescat Maria purificante, Major erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante
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