A dawn ceremony Monday will see celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerge from hiding and deliver his annual long-term weather forecast.
The choice is clear as always: if the fearless four-legged sage emerges from his burrow and sees his shadow Winter will continue for six weeks. However, if he doesn’t, an early Spring is on its way.
AP reports tens of thousands of revelers will be descending on Gobbler’s Knob in rural Pennsylvania to witness this year’s prognostication, which will be made after groundhog Phil gets brought to the stage from his hatch on a tree stump.
Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in a scene from the film ‘Groundhog Day’, directed by Harold Ramis, 1993. (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)
The ceremony is run by the
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