'I see a shadow on my stage, and so no matter how you measure, it's six more weeks of winter weather,' a handler read off the scroll he said Phil had chosen.
Rory Szwed, left, and Kent Rowan watch the festivities while waiting for Punxsutawney Phil to make his prediction at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., early Thursday morning.On Thursday morning, thousands of early risers either tuned in or bundled up to watch Punxsutawney Phil emerge from a tree stump and predict the weather.
"I see a shadow on my stage, and so no matter how you measure, it's six more weeks of winter weather," aTradition says that North America will get six more weeks of winter if Phil sees his shadow and an early spring if he does not. Statistics say not so much: Phil'sfor predicting the weather now than they did when Phil first got the gig in 1887.Advertisement
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