In US Tradition, Groundhog Predicts Winter Will Linger

It has been a brutally cold and snowy winter in much of the United States, and now a groundhog, a famed rotund rodent with an even more famous shadow, is predicting it is going to last another six weeks - much to the chagrin of those hoping for an early spring. In an annual wintertime amusement on February 2, the famed groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil peaked his head out of his burrow at Gobblers Knob in the western Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney around 7:30 a.m. on Groundhog...

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