"Hi, I'm Cinny Nym, Dean of Faculty at Vocabulary University."
"We have created a Groundhog Day word puzzle for you to solve.
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Get a PDF copy of the puzzle here for either your classroom or home."
"In addition, we have created and detail below an "Alphalary" list of 116 WEATHER-Winter/Spring words to celebrate this "intrepid" animal and his prognosticating abilities. If you would like another list of 90 "Outdoor-related words" just email your request to Winter/Spring Weather Words. Please include your school, city, state/country and grade you teach, if applicable."
The history of Groundhog Day:
February 2nd is Groundhog Day.
If the groundhog comes out of its hole and sees its shadow legend implies 40 more days of winter will occur. To see a shadow the sun must be shining and the groundhog has to look in the correct direction.Groundhog Day is an example of predicting the weather based on folklore.
This weather folklore originates in Punxsutawney Pennsylvania. The official groundhog is Punxsutawney Phil, though the tradition has spread to other communities (for example, Sun Prairie WI).The origin of Groundhog Day goes back to the 6th century.
February 2nd takes place40 days after Christmas and is Candlemas Day in Christianity. On this day candles that were used for the rest of the year were blessed. This time of year is also about the mid-point in winter, in weather not astronomical terms.
Germans began trying to predict how long winter would continue based on the hibernation patterns of bears in this later part of winter. When Germans citizens settled in Pennsylvania they switched from bears to groundhogs -- animals that also hibernate. Does anyone know the reason behind the switch?
SOURCE: Dep't of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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A: ABRASION, accuracy, acid rain, air, air pressure, altitude, anemometer, arctic, atmosphere, avalanche, axis
B: balance, barometer, barometric pressure, blackout, BLIZZARD, breezy, bright, broadcast
C: Celsius, celestial, centigrade, CFC, chemicals, CHILBLAIN, chill, circulation, cirrus, clear, climate, cloudy, coalescence, cold, color, composition, condensation, conditions, controversial, CONTUSION, convection, conversion, crystals, cumulus, current, cycle, cyclone
D: damage, damp, decay, degree, deluge, demonstrate, density, detection, devastation, dew, dew point, direction, dissipation, disruption, doldrums, Doppler radar, downpour, dreary, droplets, drought, drizzle, dry, dull, dust devils
E: earthquake, easterlies, eclipse, eddies, El Nino, electricity, emergency, energy, environment, erosion, eruption, evaporation, extreme, evacuate, evaporation
F: Fahrenheit, flood, flooding, flurries, Foehn, fog, forecast, freezing, freezing rain, FRIGID, front, frost, funnel
G: gale, gauge, GLACIAL, global, gravity, greenhouse effect, gusty
H: hail, hailstone, harbinger, haze, hibernal, high tide, heat, heat wave, high pressure, hot, humidity, hurricane
I: ice, impact, inclement, Indian Summer, inexact, influence, informative, inquiry, instruction, instruments, intermittent, inversion, INVIGORATE, isobar, isotherm
J: January, jet stream
K: knot
L: LACERATION, landslide, latitude, layers, lightening, liquid, longitude, low pressure, low tide
M: maritime, measurement, melt, mercury, meteorologist, meteorology, mild, millibar, mist, moisture, moon, monsoon, movement, mud slide, muggy
N: natural, nature, normal
O: observation, ocean, occluded front, occlusion, orbit, outage, overcast, ozone
P: particles, pattern, pollution, pouring, power, precipitation, prediction, pressure, prevailing, prognosticate, puddles
Q: quaking
R: radar, radiation, rain, raindrop, rainbow, rainfall, reflection, regional, regulation, report, research, rotation
S: satellite, saturation, scale, scientist, scientific, scorching, seasonal, sentinel, severe, shadow, shady, showers, sirocco, sky, sublimation, sleet, smog, snow, snow flake, snowstorm, solar system, space, squall, storm, stratus clouds, sunshine, sunny, sunrise, sunset, survival, swirling
T: technology, temperate, temperatures, thaw, thermometer, thunder, thunder clouds, thunder showers, thunderstorms, tidal wave, tornado, torrent, torrential, track, transmission, tremor, trigger, tropical, trough, tsunami, typhoon
U: umbrellas, undulate, uniform, upwind
V: vapor, variegated, veer, velocity, vernal, violent, visibility, vital, volcanic eruption
W: warm, warm front, warming, warnings, watch, water, wave, weather, weather forecast, weather system, westerly, wet, whirlwind, wind, wind shear, windstorm, wintry
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Z: zephyr, zoneIf you would like a list of 138 "Space-related words" just email your request to Space Words.
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Winter/Spring Weather Lesson Plan Ideas:
Objectives: Teach students to appreciate facts about weather and do a bit of problem solving.
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