CE Greetings from Punxsutawney!

  • Due Feb 2, 2018 by 7am
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Greetings from Punxsutawney!

On 2 February 2017 Punxsutawney Phil Links to an external site. did see his shadow, at Gobbler's Knob, and Spring was 6 weeks away.

What will it be for 2018?

Groundhog Day 2018 Guide Links to an external site.


“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 is seen, legend says, spring will come early.”  As usual, thousands showed up for the event.

 

Punxsutawney Phil

 Wikipedia Links to an external site.

Phil's official forecast is predicted on February 2nd at sunrise at Gobbler's Knob

  Groundhog.org Links to an external site.

 Past predictions Links to an external site.

  Groundhog recipes for Groundhog Day 2015 revenge Links to an external site.

In 2013 Ohio prosecutors ‘indicted’ Punxsutawney Phil over early spring forecast, seek death penalty Links to an external site.

"In 2013, Phil issued a forecast for an early spring, but bitter cold and snow gripped the eastern U.S. into March that year.  The prosecuting attorney in Butler County, Ohio went as far as to seek the death penalty for Phil Links to an external site. for “misrepresentation of early spring” before a Pennsylvania law firm came to Phil’s defense, claiming the Ohio attorney had no jurisdiction to prosecute the Groundhog Links to an external site.." The Washington Post, 02 February 2015 Links to an external site.

Punxsutawney Phil: The Groundhog Behind the Myth
-- Live Science Links to an external site. (01 February 2010)

Groundhog Day Links to an external site. -- Wikipedia Links to an external site.

 

 

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