Groundhog Day has been observed on Feb. 2. The longstanding tradition calls for groundhogs to tell us if spring is near.

Punxsutawney Phil is adorable, but a woodchuck from New York has him beat for accuracy, according to NOAA weather data analysis.

Phil has predicted a longer winter far more often than an early spring, and one effort to track his accuracy concluded he was ...

An early spring is on its way, the Howell Nature Center's Woody the Woodchuck predicted Sunday morning after emerging from her den without seeing her shadow. "Thank you to everyone who came out to ...