Happy Groundhog Day! Groundhog Day is February 2. The day each year when we wait for the famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil to emerge and provide a forecast for the late winter and early spring ahead. If he sees his shadow, we will get six more
Happy Groundhog Day! Groundhog Day is February 2. The day each year when we wait for the famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil to emerge and provide a forecast for the late winter and early spring ahead. If he sees his shadow, we will get six more
Punxsutawney Phil failed to see his shadow on this Groundhog Day 2013. According to folklore, no shadow for Phil means an early spring. If Phil had seen his shadow, it would have meant six more weeks of winter. It was 7:25 a.m.on this Saturday morning
Europeans used hedgehogs as the animal that determined the season change but Pennsylvania Dutch farmers chose the groundhog because they were found in greater numbers in North America. Groundhog Day stemmed from the ancient traditions of
Punxsutawney, the Pennsylvania town that is home to one of the most famous weather-predicting groundhogs, Punxsutawney Phil, has been carrying on the tradition of Groundhog Day since the 1800s, according to The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club.
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