Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring (AP)

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 5:01 AM By dwi

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. – To the comfort of the winter-weary, the world's most famous groundhog is predicting an primeval spring.

Punxsutawney Phil emerged around daybreak on Groundhog Day on weekday to make his 125th period defy prognosticate in face of thousands who braved muddy, icy conditions to center his handlers reveal that Pennsylvania's foreshadowing placental had not seen his shadow.

Phil's handlers, the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club's Inner Circle, fix the forecasts. Several cardinal revelers concentrated in the pre-dawn hours on a diminutive construction called Gobbler's Knob to center the prediction.

Before Wednesday, Phil had seen his shadow 98 nowadays and hadn't seen it 15 nowadays since 1887. There are no records for the remaining years, though the assemble has never unsuccessful to issue a forecast.

The practice traces its origins to a German superstition.


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