Only 35% of Punxsutawney Phil\u2019s winter predictions are accurate, while Staten Island Chuck\u2019s forecasts have 85% accuracy <\/p>\n
Scientists have cast doubt on the reliability of America\u2019s most celebrated rodent forecaster \u2013 whose apparent knack of predicting how long winter will last forms a hallowed tradition in the US.<\/p>\n
Punxsutawney Phil<\/a>, made famous by the 1993 film Groundhog Day<\/a>, attracts thousands of visitors every 2 February to the Pennsylvania town from which he takes his name.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Only 35% of Punxsutawney Phil\u2019s winter predictions are accurate, while Staten Island Chuck\u2019s forecasts have 85% accuracy Scientists have cast doubt on the reliability of America\u2019s most celebrated rodent forecaster \u2013 whose apparent knack of predicting how long winter will last forms a hallowed tradition in the US. Punxsutawney Phil, made famous by the 1993 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}