Say What?!: Zurich’s Exploding Snowman Predicts a Cool Summer

Amy Powers

Amy Powers

Published April 15, 2015 4:02 am
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ZURICH, Switzerland — The city of Zurich, Switzerland, celebrated winter’s end with a traditional burning snowman — but the slow explosion of the head forecasts a cold summer.

The traditional Sechselauten ceremony in Zurich featured the Boeoegg, a “snowman” actually made of fabric stuffed with explosives, being set aflame atop a large pyre Monday, and residents timed the blaze to see how long it took the effigy’s head to explode.

Local tradition holds it will be a warm and sunny summer if the snowman’s head explodes within 12 minutes, but Monday’s Boeoegg took 20 minutes and 39 seconds to blow its top, leading some to forecast a cold and gray season.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/04/14/Zurichs-exploding-snowman-predicts-a-cool-summer/6611429028232/?spt=sec&or=on.

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