It’s nearly Groundhog Day! But how accurate is Punxsutawney Phil?

This year, they partnered with Flying Bison among many other sponsors and had the event at the brewery. They check out the burrows of the lady groundhogs, then go back into their burrows and hibernate until around early March when it’s time to mate. “So this is great, this has been fantastic and better than I could have ever imagined, I think better than any of us could have ever imagined”.

In the years following the release of the film Groundhog Day, crowds numbering as high as 30,000 have visited Gobbler’s Knob, the tiny hill in Punxsutawney where the yearly ceremony takes place.

Americans can expect to hear at least another nine months of Donald Trump’s incoherent xenophobic bullsh*t, according to prognosticating groundhog Punxsutawney Phil.

The good news is it looks like it’s going to be a sunny day Tuesday in Punxsutawney.

Is there a method to Punxsutawney Phil’s madness in predicting how long winter will last on Groundhog Day? Folkloric predictions and traditions are always fun, February 2, 2016 will be Punxsutawney Phil’s 130th prognostication in predicting the winter weather.

Groundhog history tells us if the groundhog sees his shadow, he takes it as an omen of six more weeks of winter and returns to his hole. In the past, Phil threatened to forecast 60 weeks more of winter during Prohibition if he was not given a drink, he met President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s Show in 1995.

#8.5 – Chuck weighs 8.5 pounds.

In 1887, a newspaper editor belonging to a group of groundhog hunters from Punxsutawney called the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club declared that Phil, the Punxsutawney groundhog, was America’s only true weather-forecasting groundhog.