Thousands of people from around the world made the journey to see Punxsutawney Phil make his 2023 grand debut this Groundhog Day, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. Seeing his shadow means there will be six more weeks of winter. Had he crawled unbothered, it would have indicat...
Well, Phil is a huge grump and he doesn't want to go to Punxsutawney at all. He thinks the whole Groundhog Day tradition is stupid and he's mean to his coworkers Rita and Larry. On February 2nd, he goes and does the report on the groundhog seeing his shadow which means 6 more ...
If a groundhog sees its shadow that means six more weeks of winter is on the way, according to folklore. No shadow means an early spring. Punxsutawney Phil also predicted an early spring on Friday in Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania, the site of the country’s largest and best known Ground...
Phil's longest stretch of seeing his shadow is 21 consecutive years, which came between 1913 and 1933. His longest streak of not seeing his shadow is only two years between 2019 and 2020. The only time Phil did not appear was in 1943, during World War II. Phil's first official shadow ...
According to official records, after Groundhog Day 2022, Phil has seen his shadow 107 times out of 136 attempts. So that puts the chances of Phil seeing his shadow (meaning 6 more weeks of snow) at about 79%. Groundhog Day is celebrated in other places in the US and Canada, such as ...
Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring after not seeing his shadow Punxsutawney Phil, Pennsylvania's most famous groundhog, awoke this morning and did not see his shadow which means that an early spring is on the way. 7 years ago Groundhog Day 2018: Punxsutawney Phil sees shadow, six...
Groundhog Day is famously connected to weather prediction, with the most prominent tradition involving a groundhog predicting the conclusion of winter by seeing (or not seeing) his own shadow. According to weather lore: Sees His Shadow:If the plump prognosticator emerges from his hole on a clear...
Woodstock Willie aligns with Chuck and Phil in not seeing his shadow ByCOREY WILLIAMS Share Share Phil may have Punxsutawney, but the classic movie “Groundhog Day” was “philmed” in Woodstock, Illinois, nearly 570 miles to the west, where Woodstock Willie holds court once a year. ...
If the sun is shining, it will see its shadow. The shadow scares it. So it runs back into its hole. This means six more weeks of winter. If the day is cloudy, it will not see its shadow. Since it is not scared, it stays out of its hole.【2】___. These are the same things...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Staten Island Chuck "predicted" an early spring while Pennsylvania's most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, called for six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow.Cheers erupted as Chuck, taking the moment in stride, emerged Thursday morning at the Staten...