Updated: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 11:44 ET
Published: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 11:27 EST Clock
(Canvas staff reports) - Punxsutawney Phil is a weatherman, everyone will agree, is all style and no science, but he managed to attract a crowd and the nation's attention on February 2 drawing fate.
Each year the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, plunges into the fire, which airs throughout the world are delighted to see if the famous groundhog see his shadow on Groundhog Day forecasters.
The myth is still six weeks of winter is on the way, if the groundhog sees his shadow, as the dawn. No shadow: one in early spring.
Phil's prediction is seen at about 07.25 clock visitPA.com ET on Wednesday and will be simulcast.
Wikipedia.com states that the feast of Pennsylvania Groundhog Day was a German custom in the 18th and 19th Century. It may have roots in the old days of European traditions, but before the legends were forecasting employment to a badger or bear a saint is not a newspaper.
There are other similarities to the medieval Catholic feast of Candlemas, and the pagan festival of Imbolc, the turning point of the season Celtic calendar, which falls between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox.
The blog The Holiday Spot credits editor Clymer H. W. Freas and U.S. Congress Smith with the start of the annual festival in Punxsutawney in the late 1800s.
Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney Phil official site, "said Phil doing his thing since 1887.
He has seen his shadow 99 of 114 times, reported The Christian Science Monitor. Almanac Stormfax gives him a failing grade, saying something he was right only 39 percent of the time.
But that does not stop thousands of people seem to see the show.
Punxsutawney Phil has its competitors, including Buckeye Chuck, the official weather forecaster in Ohio since 1979. Chuck appeared in the woods behind the studios of radio station WMRN in Marion, Ohio, began as part of a tradition of former radio host, Charlie Evers.
The event will include sandwiches, SPAM, then cover the ground pork with the groundhog.
Folklore, means that it Groundhog Day, a stuffed groundhog, if this year's Buckeye Chuck died shortly before his time in the spotlight.
There are others, as reported in 2009 by AOL News, including Staten Island Chuck, the bit-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in
Groundhogs are not the only ones reported in the spotlight as the turtle and rabbit duo Mike Orlando Sentinel Mount Dora and Mount Dora Millie are the stars of forecasting in Florida.
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