Forget the groundhogs: A Nantucket clam gives its winter prediction

With more snow in the forecast, if you’re not happy Punxsutawney Phil and Ms. G, Massachusetts’ official groundhog, both predicted six more weeks of winter, you might want to put your meteorological fate into the non-existent hands of a bivalve off Cape Cod that sacrifices its life to make its prediction.

Forget the groundhogs — Nantucket turns to the ocean for its weather predictions, trusting Quentin the Quahog to tell humans when winter will end.

According to Quentin, it will be an early spring, at least on the island, the Inquirer and Mirror reported Sunday…

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