DID THE GROUNDHOG SEE HIS SHADOW?
It’s Groundhog day again, a holiday celebrated every second day of February. The most famous winter-predicting groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania did see his shadow so that means there will be 6 more weeks of winter.
Phil predicted that winter will continue for 6 more weeks and other groundhogs like Malverne Mel (Malverne, New York), Wiarton Willie (Wiarton, Ontario), Spanish Joe (Spanish, Ontario), and Shubenacadie Sam (Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia) also has the same prediction while Jimmy the Groundhog (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin), General Beauregard Lee (Snellville, Georgia), Staten Island Chuck (Staten Island, New York City), Woodstock Willie (Woodstock, Illinois), Dunkirk Dave (Dunkirk, New York), and Buckeye Chuck (Marion, Ohio) predicted an early spring.
According to Groundhog proponents, rodents’ forecast are 75% to 90% accurate. From 1887 to 2010, Punxsutawney Phil has predicted an early spring 14 times out of 113 predictions. According to the Inner Circle, a select group that takes care of Phil, Phil is 100% accurate but StormFax Weather Almanac and the The Groundhog Day Book of Facts opposed in their beliefs. They found out that he has historically been right only one out of three tries, that means about 39% of accuracy.
If you do believe in this tradition, don’t put away your winter coats because we have 6 more weeks to go.
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