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For more than 120 years, Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog has emerged from a stump at Gobbler’s Knob, PA, to predict the weather on the 2nd of February each year.

Everyone is familiar with the story of Groundhog Day…

Groundhog Day, February 2nd, is a popular tradition in the United States. It is also a legend that traverses centuries, its origins clouded in the mists of time with ethnic cultures and animals awakening on specific dates. Myths such as this tie our present to the distant past when nature did, indeed, influence our lives. It is the day that the Groundhog comes out of his hole after a long winter sleep to look for his shadow.

If he sees it, he regards it as an omen of six more weeks of bad weather and returns to his hole.

If the day is cloudy and, hence, shadowless, he takes it as a sign of spring and stays above ground.

(www.groundhog.org – Adapted from “Groundhog Day: 1886 to 1992” by Bill Anderson)

Learn more about the history of Groundhog Day here