on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. Phil's handlers said that the groundhog emerged from his tree stump in Gobbler's Knob around 7:30 a.m. and saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. Groundhog ...

It cost more than $2,000 a year to house and feed Mel (he loved leafy vegetables, apples, rodent pellets and cherry tree leaves) and fund the Groundhog Day celebration, according to Guthlein.

Punxsutawney Phil - an actual groundhog and proclaimed "weather predictor extraordinaire" , external- will be placed on a stage (tree stump) as a crowd waits to see if he will look at his own ...

It is cold but the kids run out the door with jackets half zipped and hats askew to chase down their own real life groundhog hiding behind a tree.

The crowd started piling into Gobbler's Knob at 3 a.m. on Sunday, happy to wait more than four hours in freezing cold to see the celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerge from his tree trunk on ...