California doesn't have a Groundhog Day celebration, but in a variation on the tradition, The Living Desert in Palm Desert uses a desert tortoise, Mojave Maxine, to indicate when spring has arrived.

California doesn't have a Groundhog Day celebration, but in a variation on the tradition, The Living Desert in Palm Desert ...

Groundhog Day is on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Though not a federal holiday, Americans tune in to see if the famed groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, sees his shadow every year on the same day, Feb. 2.

California's Own ‘Groundhog' Just Predicted Spring's Start Mojave Maxine isn't an actual groundhog, of course; she's a famous desert tortoise who has a sense about when winter is ready to wrap up.

California’s weather-predicting ‘groundhog’ is a tortoise named Maxine Punxsutawney Phil and the brumating desert tortoise share a 2023 winter consensus.

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — It’s Groundhog Day, but whether or not a rodent in Pennsylvania sees his shadow means nothing to us here in Las Vegas. We have a much different — much better — way of ...

Groundhog Day on Feb. 2 is when Punxsutawney Phil comes out of its burrow in Pennsylvania to determine when winter will end. ... Arizona does not have groundhogs as part of its desert ecosystem.

The groundhog has predicted an early spring in Ohio for five years in a row. About 40 people attended Marion's Groundhog Day ceremony Monday in north-central Ohio amid snowy and cold conditions.

Groundhog Day arrived on Sunday, Feb. 2, and Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog prognosticator, saw his shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of winter weather. Boooo, say those of us ...

Desert Road offers an uncommon horror movie heroine. Forget the sheepish babysitters or the brazen hussies of slasher films. Forget the meta-heroines, so familiar with genre movies that they can ...

Groundhog Day arrived on Sunday, Feb. 2, and Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog prognosticator, saw his shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of winter weather. Boooo, say those of us ...