In article ,
TT writes:
http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/02...ex.html?hpt=T2

more accurate than the GFS

I rather doubt that.

This piece of American folklore is much akin to our own British folklore
concerning Candlemas, which also falls on February 2nd. There was a good
piece on the subject by Philip Eden in the most recent Sunday
Telegraph's weather section, to which I was hoping to provide a link,
but it doesn't seem to be available online. So I will have to make do by
linking to his contribution to our discussion about this topic in this
newsgroup two years ago:

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Arch.../msg00299.html
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