PUNXSUTAWNEY, pa. — Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil told people to prepare for six more weeks of winter Thursday, making him the minority opinion among his groundhog brethren.
Phil’s “prediction” came as he emerged to “see” his shadow on Gobbler’s Knob, in the town for which he is named about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Yet, groundhogs in at least four other states — West Virginia’s French Creek Freddie, Georgia’s Gen. Beauregard Lee, Ohio’s Buckeye Chuck and New York’s Staten Island Chuck (full name: Charles G. Hogg) — did not see their shadows.
In Boulder, a yellow-bellied marmot named Flatiron Freddy — who is stuffed because he was killed by a car some years ago — predicted an early spring. “Except for today when there will be a snowstorm at 4 p.m,” said Open Space ranger Dave Gustafson, reading from a scroll on Freddy’s behalf.
The Associated Press
The Daily Camera contributed to this report.
