no wonder the little screwballs were normally eaten afterwards...
John Griffiths, right, one of the handlers of weather predicting groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, holds Phil as his other handler, Ben Hughes, pets him on the head Ground Hog's Day in Punxsutawney, Pa. on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008. The Groundhog Club said Phil saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Groundhog predicts more winter weather
Sat Feb 2, 8:57 AM ET
The rodent was pulled from his stump by members of the
Each Feb. 2, thousands of people descend on
The tradition is that if a hibernating animal sees a shadow on Feb. 2 — the Christian holiday of Candlemas — winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow is seen, legend says spring will come early.
That was the forecast from Gen. Beauregard Lee, Punxsutawney Phil's counterpart in
It was the third year in a row the two groundhogs' predictions differed.
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