Groundhog Day: How Many Talented Psychic Rodents In America?

Punxutawney Phil

From Denny:  Predicting the end of winter is serious business in America.  We take our groundhog psychics seriously, so seriously that several other cities are promoting their own prognosticators.  Watch the media attention grow and the dollars flow in for tourism.

Punxsutawney Phil

The psychic rodent best known is Punxsutawney Phil of Pennsylvania. His fan club, The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, keeps those all important statistics.

Their groundhog Phil has seen his shadow 99 times, which means winter will continue another six weeks.  He has not seen his shadow only 16 times.  Only nine years are not accounted for since they have been keeping records since 1887.  FYI, it isn't the exact same rodent for the past century.

From Mike Johnston, Vice President of the Inner Circle of Punxsutawney Phil, he says that Phil "has never been wrong.  Phil can't err because he never applies his prognostication to a specific place.  I guarantee you someone's going to have six more weeks of winter."  I bet he winks every time after dishing out that boat load of wisdom.