However, Buckeye Chuck disagrees and says we’ll see six more weeks of winter.
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If it’s a sunny day, he’ll become frightened when he sees his shadow and skedaddle back into his burrow for six more weeks of winter. If not, spring comes early. As it turns out, Phil and his counterparts have been predicting the weather for quite some time – since 1887, according to anarticle in the Huffington Post.
Well this year, as the groundhog emerged from his burrow in Gobbler’s Knob, a hill outside the town for which the animal is named, the little critter did NOT see his shadow.
To find out, we combed through nearly 20 years of records from the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club and NY newspaper archives to find out which predictions each groundhog made. The annual ritual went down at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania on February 2, and we now officially know whether or not it will be a long winter or early spring this year. No matter the evidence, thousands will still gather in Punxsutawney to see Phil and receive their(potentially inaccurate) weather prediction.
Here are quotes, poems, and sayings about Groundhog Day, including a few from the famous movie by Bill Murray.
Set your alarm now – Phil’s an early riser.
In the Hollywood outing, pessimistic weatherman Phil Connors is forced to live through the same Groundhog Day “over and over” again until he gets it right.
If you haven’t brushed up on your German, and can’t make the trip to Pennsylvania, you probably think you won’t be included in all the wild antics of the day, but you are surely mistaken!
This year marks the 130th Groundhog Day celebration, so there have been many “Phils” throughout the years. But the phenomenon of Punxsutawney’s Groundhog Day is a creation of a force more modern than superstition: the media.
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The accuracy of the venerable, meteorologically inclined rodent’s prediction is secondary, of course, to the true meaning of Groundhog Day.
