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Chuck’s accuracy rate since the Staten Island Zoo started its Groundhog Day predictions is as high as 85%, according to the zoo — a hot streak that is incomparable to his much more famous ...
The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club's Inner Circle ... Phil has a 35% overall accuracy rating over 135 years. Of the 129 recorded times Phil has predicted the weather, he has now seen his shadow ...
NOAA released the study ahead of Groundhog Day, which falls on Sunday, to analyze which groundhogs -- along with one prairie dog statue and a tortoise -- were the most accurate in predicting ...
No. 4 (tie): Concord Charlie —65 percent accuracy Concord Charlie has never actually been seen — but he’s presumed to be a groundhog from Athens, W.Va. According to Groundhog-day.com ...
In Germany, a badger had been used, but a suitable replacement in America was the groundhog. In 1886, Clymer H. Freas, city editor of the Punxsutawney Spirit Newspaper, was inspired by a local ...
Phil's track record isn't very good, and as the weather changes with the increasing impacts of climate change, his accuracy could get even worse. However, some data shows that if the groundhog ...
A groundhog by the name of Punxsutawney Phil ... has gotten the forecast right for San Antonio 27 times, good for a 54% accuracy rating. Phil’s accuracy is actually slightly higher across ...
The answer is simple… the “groundhog nog” fed to him each fall ... arrives — have been graded and ranked based on their accuracy over the past 20 years, using the March temperature ...
Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil might be the most well-known weather-predicting groundhog, but a new list casts doubt on his accuracy. Phil did so poorly that even nonliving critters outshine ...