If Pennsylvania’s fluffy meteorologist ... a similar hibernating animal was chosen.” A mention of Groundhog Day first appeared in a local Punxsutawney newspaper in 1886, and the following ...

Bill Deeley, former president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club and handler of Punxsutawney Phil, has passed away.

Pennsylvania, thanks to the Punxsutawney Spirit newspaper. The following year, 1887, marked the first official Groundhog Day event at Gobbler’s Knob. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, formed in ...

On Thursday morning, otherwise known as Groundhog Day, all eyes turned to Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania — and just like last year, and the year before that, the legendary ...

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - It's been six weeks since Groundhog Day 2025 ... The Groundhog Day tradition that began with German settlers in Pennsylvania, based on a German custom involving a hedgehog ...

Punxsutawney Phil is far from the only groundhog ... according to the late Don Yoder, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose 2003 book about Groundhog Day explored the Celtic connection. Yoder ...

The annual festivities in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania were virtual and livestreamed ... of thousands on hand to celebrate the 135th Groundhog Day. Still, the celebration went on as planned, despite ...

(AP) — Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring Friday at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania, the scene of the largest and best-known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States. The annual ...

That's the prediction made Wednesday by Punxsutawney Phil after he emerged from his burrow in Pennsylvania to perform his Groundhog Day duties. A gloomy Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil says more ...

2023 5:33 a.m. Punxsutawney Phil has spoken — there will be six more weeks of winter. Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog saw his shadow — for the third year in a row — on Thursday ...