Sheril KirshenbaumWell, it's Groundhog Day, again.*
“Only in America do we accept weather predictions from a rodent but deny #ClimateChange evidence from scientists.”
* I share this meme every year on February 2. Source unknown. #science
Jonathan Gerhardson@Sheril how it works is a NOAA satellite passing Punxsutawney at an angle tangential to the sunrise uses high-resolution microsatellite cameras such as The Dragoneye (HR-250) from Dragonfly Aerospace to determine the precise angle and luminescence of the cast shadow. Meanwhile, ground cameras armed with Automatic Rodent-eye Covalence Tracking Intent Capabilities (ARCTIC) feed a proprietary algorithm trained on data about how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood