Overall, 14 of the groundhogs had 50% accuracy or better. Poor Punxsutawney Phil managed only 35% accuracy, landing him near the bottom of the rankings. At least he's more accurate than Mojave Max, a ...

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

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Sunday and predicted six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced to a record-sized crowd at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania.

Punxsutawney Phil's team of top-hatted associates will issue the woodchuck's weather verdict as the sun rises ... longer winter far more often than an early spring, and one effort to track his ...

The agency compared the groundhogs' track records with US March temperature averages from 2005 to 2024. All hail Staten Island Chuck, a woodchuck at the Staten Island Zoo in New York. Chuck ...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve spotted them a few times in the vicinity of Ground Hog College Road (yes, that’s a real road), snapped a few photos, and counted as many as 17 birds in one flock.

Phil's track record in a recent 10-year span has ... Michigan's official groundhog, Woody the Woodchuck, who resides at the Howell Nature Center and began forecasting in 1999, has a 67% accuracy ...