Mammal made his prediction at annual Pennsylvania celebration, but estimates have shown he\u2019s only accurate 40% of the time<\/p>\n
Punxsutawney Phil\u2019s winter weather forecast was announced shortly after sunrise on Friday \u2013 and the best known Groundhog Day animal predicted an early spring this year.<\/p>\n
Global heating amid the climate crisis? The groundhog himself doesn\u2019t speak, obviously, so that\u2019s for us humans to determine. But CNN quickly pointed out that the woodchuck\u2019s record is unreliable and that Punxsutawney Phil has only been correct in his forecast 39% of the time since the abstruse ritual began in 1887.<\/p>\n
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