Punxsutawney Phil emerged after dawn on Groundhog Day for makeing his
125th annual weather forecast in front of a smaller-than-usual crowd in rural
Pennsylvania who braved muddy, icy conditions to hear his handlers reveal so that he had not seen his shadow.Including Wednesday's forecast, Phil has seen his shadow 98 times and hasn't seen it just 16 times since 1887, according to the Punxsutawney.Groundhog Club's Inner Circle, which runs the event. There are no records
for the remaining years, though the group has never failed to issue a forecast.
2 years ago, Phil's forecast acknowledged the Steelers' Super BowlXLIII win the night before. This year, Sunday's game was mentioned in the
forecast but no winner was predicted between the Steelers and the Green
Bay Packers, who meet in Dallas for Super Bowl XLV.
"The Steelers are going to the Super Bowl," Mike Johnson, vice president of
the Inner Circle, said just before the forecast was read, drawing cheers
from the clearly partisan crowd gathered on Gobbler's Knob, a tiny hill in this
borough of about 6,100 residents some 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
The Groundhog Day celebration is rooted in a German superstition that
says if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on Feb. 2, the Christian holiday
of Candlemas, winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow was seen,
legend said spring would come early.Rooted in the celebration of Groundhog
Day in a German superstition that says if the hibernating animal cast a
shadow on February 2, in the Christmas holiday of Candlemas, winter six
weeks. If no shadow was seen, legend said spring would come early.
Groundhog Day 2011 video.............
Groundhog not the most famous in the world does not see his shadow
Wednesday, and forecasting the early spring.
The release of the 1993 movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray and its
setting in the West Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
gave the annual celebration at Gobbler’s Knob, which dates back to 1887,
growing prominence. Now with the Internet and social media it has been
receiving international attention. He does have competition from another
famous prognosticator, Staten Island Chuck, the New York groundhog, who
infamously bit Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2009 during the annual
festivities.
125th annual weather forecast in front of a smaller-than-usual crowd in rural
Pennsylvania who braved muddy, icy conditions to hear his handlers reveal so that he had not seen his shadow.Including Wednesday's forecast, Phil has seen his shadow 98 times and hasn't seen it just 16 times since 1887, according to the Punxsutawney.Groundhog Club's Inner Circle, which runs the event. There are no records
for the remaining years, though the group has never failed to issue a forecast.
2 years ago, Phil's forecast acknowledged the Steelers' Super BowlXLIII win the night before. This year, Sunday's game was mentioned in the
forecast but no winner was predicted between the Steelers and the Green
Bay Packers, who meet in Dallas for Super Bowl XLV.
"The Steelers are going to the Super Bowl," Mike Johnson, vice president of
the Inner Circle, said just before the forecast was read, drawing cheers
from the clearly partisan crowd gathered on Gobbler's Knob, a tiny hill in this
borough of about 6,100 residents some 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
The Groundhog Day celebration is rooted in a German superstition that
says if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on Feb. 2, the Christian holiday
of Candlemas, winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow was seen,
legend said spring would come early.Rooted in the celebration of Groundhog
Day in a German superstition that says if the hibernating animal cast a
shadow on February 2, in the Christmas holiday of Candlemas, winter six
weeks. If no shadow was seen, legend said spring would come early.
Groundhog Day 2011 video.............
Groundhog not the most famous in the world does not see his shadow
Wednesday, and forecasting the early spring.
The release of the 1993 movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray and its
setting in the West Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
gave the annual celebration at Gobbler’s Knob, which dates back to 1887,
growing prominence. Now with the Internet and social media it has been
receiving international attention. He does have competition from another
famous prognosticator, Staten Island Chuck, the New York groundhog, who
infamously bit Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2009 during the annual
festivities.
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