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Groundhogs Day

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WordBank: 30 words: abrasion, augury, blizzard, chilblain, conjecture, contusion, divine, forecast, foreknowledge, foreshadow, foresight, foretell, fortune-telling, frigid, glacial, harbinger, invigorate, laceration, prediction, premeditation, presage, prescience, prognosis, prognosticate, prophecy, prophet, sentinel, soothsaying, surmise, vaticinate

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Alphalary for Groundhogs Day (Wordlist)
A) A: accuracy, Air, Atmosphere
B) B: barometer, Broadcast
C) C: Celsius, Centigrade, Chill, Circulation, Climate, Cloud, Cold front, Color, Condensation, Conditions, Conversion, Cumulus, Cyclical
D) D: degrees, Density, Detection, Dew, Direction, Disruption, Drizzle
E) E: erupt, Environment, Extreme
F) F: Fahrenheit, Flurries, Fog, Forecast, Freezing, Front, Frost
G) G: gauge, Gusty
H) H: hail, Harbinger, Heat, Hibernal, Humidity
I) I: impact, Influence, Instruction, Instruments, Inversion, Isobar, Isotherm
J) J: January, Jet stream
K) K:
L) L: latitude, Lightening, Liquid, Longitude
M) M: measurement, Melt, Mercury, Meteorologist, Meteorology, Mist, Moisture
N) N: natural, Normal
O) O: observation, Occluded front, Occlusion, Ozone
P) P: particles, Precipitation, Prediction, Pressure, Prevailing, Prognosticate
Q) Q: quickly, Quiet
R) R: radar, Rain, Rainbow, Rainfall, Reflection, Regional
S) S: saturation, Scale, Scientific, Scientist, Seasonal, Sentinel, Severe, Shadow, Sleet, Snow, Snow flake, Squall, Storm
T) T: temperatures, Thaw, Thermometer, Thunderstorms
U) U: upwind
V) V: vapor, Veer, Velocity, Vernal
W) W: warm, Watch, Water, Weather, Weather system, Whirlwind, Wind
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Y) Y:
Z) Z: zephyr, Zone
Discussion ideas for Ground Hog Day
1. Explain why people think that Groundhog Day forecasts weather for six weeks.
2. From what two countries was the custom brought to America?
3. A ground hog is another name for what animal?
4. On what day and month of the year does Groundhog Day occur?
5. Write a short paragraph about this legend.
6. Is there scientific evidence that proves that the ground hog indicates weather patterns?