Quotes About Candlemas

If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another fight; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.

Yesterday was "ground-hog's day" in many parts of the United States, and Candlemas day in many other parts of the world. From time immemorial, it has been a critical day in the affairs of the weather. The character of the second of February is really of much more importance than whether the first of March comes in like a lion or a lamb. The simplest form of the adage is:— If Candlemas day be bright and clear, There'll be two winters in that year.

The prognosticating groundhog is thought to derive from a German tradition that if the sun comes out on Candlemas Day and the hedgehog sees his shadow, six more weeks of winter will follow.