Groundhog Day

The season's fate rests on the shoulders of one famous rodent: Punxsutawney Phil. Here's everything you need to know about Groundhog Day 2023.

[Ohio's Buckeye Chuck](https://www.marionstar.com/story/news/local/2023/01/27/marions-buckeye-chuck-may-miss-groundhog-day-after-peta-complaint/69841194007/)(groundhog). Critters ranging from an armadillo to a rattlesnake are expected to predict the weather this February. - Louisiana's Cajun Groundhog (groundhog). - Wisconsin's Jimmy (groundhog). Groundhog Day 2023 is Thursday, Feb. You're not the only animal meteorologist. It is not a federal holiday, meaning banks, mail services, trash services, schools, grocery stores, federal offices, local governments, libraries and stock markets will be open. During Candlemas, Christians would light candles to predict how long winter would last. - Alabama's Smith Lake Jake (groundhog). [predicted a longer winter](https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2022/02/02/punxsutawney-phil-predicts-6-more-weeks-winter/9313616002/). [Punxsutawney Phil](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/01/29/groundhog-day-peta-wants-punxsutawney-phil-retire/4607356002/). [winter](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/12/13/when-is-first-day-of-winter-2022-winter-solstice-dates/69689052007/) ever end?

CNN explores Groundhog Day's origins from a tiny event to an American holiday we can all be proud of.

The year 1887 was the year of the “Groundhog Picnic,” Yoder said. Shadeaux of Louisiana and Thistle the Whistle-pig of Ohio, to name a few fellow groundhog weather prognosticators. [per](https://www.groundhog.org/phil-faq) the Groundhog Club. Despite their early practice of noshing on Phil’s family, the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club avers that there has only been one Phil since 1886. [1993 film of the same name](https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/health/groundhog-day-movie-lessons-covid-wellness/index.html). In the 1960s, Phil got his name, a nod to “King Phillip,” First, though, the February holiday was known as “Candlemas,” a day on which Christians brought candles to church to be blessed – a sign of a source of light and warmth for winter. In the Celtic year, instead of solstices, there were four dates – similar to the dates we use today to demarcate the seasons – that were the “turning points” of the year. In a terrible twist, the earliest Groundhog Days of the 19th century involved devouring poor Phil after he made his prediction. There was some mysticism attached to the holiday, too, as seen in a And since Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants mostly arrived in the mid-to-late 18th century, it’s likely that the holiday existed for decades earlier than we have recorded, per the Library of Congress. So how did Groundhog Day go from a kooky local tradition to an annual celebration even those of us who don’t worry about winter can find the fun in?

Thirty years ago, director Harold Ramis, Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell teamed on Groundhog Day, which had a "tense" shoot.

“There was talk of a sequel from the moment it came out, but I didn’t want to have anything to do with that,” he says of the movie. I was always responding to him as, ‘This is earnest and believable, and this is who I am.’ My humor was playing it straight, and I don’t regret doing it that way.” Andie MacDowell, who played producer Rita Hanson, tells THR that it was the favorite of her films and praises Murray for delivering lines in ways that were “always fresh.” She adds, “He’s in touch with that dark side. “It was unfortunate and probably made the movie considerably less fun to make. Cinematographer John Bailey credits the director, who died in 2014, for its unique balance of heart and laughs. “My job was to play it straight to Bill — that was my choice,” MacDowell says. 12, 1993, the film earned $70.9 ($143.6 million today) and won a BAFTA for original screenplay. “It was a tense shoot for a number of reasons,” says Albert, given the conflicts between the pair. Ultimately, the role went to “And that’s how we found an unexpected gem.” Rubin explains that Hanks was one of his initial suggestions because he was afraid that a comedian type would “fall into their schtick,” but that the actor turned down the part. Having followed National Lampoon’s Vacation with 1986’s underperforming Club Paradise, Ramis wanted his next project to aim outside the box.

Six more weeks of winter or an early spring? Punxsutawney Phil will make his prediction Thursday morning at Gobbler's Knob.

Europeans observing Candlemas tracked hibernating hedgehogs to predict when winter would end. After the Pennsylvania Dutch settled in America, they looked ...

on Feb. Feb. The festival, running through Feb. “Hudgins was the coordinator between Columbia Pictures, Harold Ramis and the City of Woodstock,” Bellairs said. Rubin will be at the Thursday prognostication ceremony and then, at 2 p.m. “It was a small gathering, a handful of people,” Bellairs said. The Milwaukee County Zoo's groundhog Gordy will make his expert weather prediction, livestreamed on the Milwaukee County Zoo’s Facebook Page at 9 a.m. And that date is Feb. Beauregard Lee in Georgia and Chattanooga Chuck, who works as “the chief seasonal forecaster” at the Tennessee Aquarium. In 1886, the Punxsutawney (Pa.) Spirit newspaper printed the first news of a Groundhog Day observance. It was a sort of “reimagining” of Candlemas Day, a Catholic midwinter festival that had roots in — you guessed it — a pagan celebration. In six weeks, we’ll be in the middle of March.

In the 1993 film, Bill Murray's character is stuck living the same day over and over. In lockdown, I decided to experiment on myself and watch the same film ...

On reaching the finish line I was elated and celebrated with a final viewing on the big screen. My own shift in perspective came into play in the final three months. By the midway point, my viewing had shifted into a mode of cataloguing and memorisation. Some days, the viewing felt like a curse. I began to notice the reoccurrence of certain extras from scene to scene, building my own narrative around their identities. Phil Connors’s weather reports ran through my head unbidden, and I had built myself a mental map of Punxsutawney to where I felt like I could give directions to a visitor. Living in lockdown, I was feeling frustration, ennui, and like forward progress had ground to a halt. Groundhog Day was the natural candidate. In 2021 I was wrestling with the same question. [alternative readings](https://www.cbr.com/groundhog-day-movie-theory-ned-ryerson-devil/) of the film, but I understood in my final stretch of viewing that a film can transform with us, revealing new layers from viewing to viewing. I began to talk to the film as it played. As a film scholar and cinephile, I wanted to find out how well a movie would sustain this kind of viewing and what a viewer might get out of the experience.

We all LOVE the movie Groundhog Day especially on February 2nd. The original ending to the movie had a plot twist...and I'm glad that they didn't do it.

Danny Rubin was a screenwriter for Groundhog Day and he answers the sequel question and other Groundhog Day movie questions below. That means that 11% didn't know that Phil looks at this shadow and predicts the weather. I think that Groundhog Day is one of the most underappreciated holidays and that's why it's my favorite.

It's almost time for a furry weather predictor in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to reveal their winter forecast. But how did this tradition start? Author: The ...

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On February 4, 1977, the band Fleetwood Mac released their record-selling "Rumours" album. Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie sang one of its songs, "Don't ...

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This show was produced by Dave Blanchard and edited by Sally Helm. It was engineered by Robert Rodriguez and Gilly Moon and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez.

It was engineered by Robert Rodriguez and Gilly Moon and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. They'll be trapped in this never-ending groundhog news cycle until they can find a new February 2nd story to tell...something that has nothing to do with one furry prognosticator... This show was produced by Dave Blanchard and edited by Sally Helm. This year, in a cruel twist of fate reminiscent of the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, two Planet Money hosts have found themselves facing a curse. If he does: six more weeks of winter. Groundhog Day 2023

Chicago connections are many for the Bill Murray classic that's funny, poignant and way better than sweet vermouth on the rocks, with a twist.

Speaking in a raspy, Eastwood-like voice, Phil says he’s seen this movie more than a hundred times and tells his date, “Call me Bronco.” Um, what? It received positive reviews and was a sizable hit — and has only grown in reputation and status through the decades, with the American Film Institute ranking it No. And the Chicago-born actress Marita Geraghty plays Nancy Taylor, who is led to believe she went to high school with that rascal Phil, who initially uses the time loop for personal gain. awful, but in the name of research for this celebration of the 30th anniversary of one of the great comedies of all time, I am going to take a pause to actually consume a sweet vermouth, rocks, with a twist. That was some sacrifice Phil Connors was making in the name of possible romance. As you’ll recall, when Phil sidles up next to Rita in the bar and offers to buy her a drink, he initially asks for “Jim Beam, ice, water,” but on subsequent repeated Groundhog Days, he changes his order to match Rita’s favorite drink of “Sweet vermouth, rocks with a twist.” It sounds …

The famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil gives us his weather prediction every February 2, but historically, the results usually aren't accurate.

- 2019: No Shadow - 2016: No Shadow - 2013: No Shadow Here's are all of his results since 1887: [ according to the Stormfax Weather Almanac](http://www.stormfax.com/ghogday.htm). 2, the world's most famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil rises from its burrow in Pennsylvania for Groundhog Day to give the prediction on what type of weather the U.S.

RR photos by Jonathan Charles Fox. I didn't know Bob, Jim, Suzanne, Stacy and Gordon (in no particular order) before last Saturday, But I'm sure I'll see ...

“The groundhog is a lowland creature of North America,” I read to her aloud, “and it was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.” “Hmmm,” I mused. By the time most of you are reading this, we’ll know what the little guy “predicted,” but it’s Saturday, January 28, as I write this column, and I just got home from Roscoe Beer’s WinterFest in (duh) Roscoe, NY, so I still won’t know for a couple of days, so you all beat me to it. I’m sure that someone keeps track of whether the famous groundhog known as Phil is accurate, but I’m also fairly confident that nobody really puts much stock in his prognostication. Oh sure, there were hundreds of friends out for a good time (again) and I saw lots of familiar faces (again) and folks were having fun (again)—but different? It comes ‘round once a year, but the older I get, the faster the years fly by.

Thursday, Feb. 2 is Groundhog Day. The long-standing tradition in the United States and Canada derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a ...

But only the top-hatted member of the Inner Circle of his handlers will be able to interpret for the world what Phil whispers in his ear. Then, if you don’t have to head to work, you can head back into your own burrow, and maybe even watch the 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day” again, because at least then you’ll know what to expect. national temperatures with Phil’s forecasts, and determined that Phil had “gotten it right” approximately 40 percent of the time, which is less than just random chance.

Every 2 February an old tradition takes place where communities across North America await the divine insights of groundhogs and their shadows.

When he was held up to Mayor Jonathon Freud’s ear, he was apparently not happy to have been disturbed from his slumber and promptly took a bite. In most cities it is the mystical groundhog whispers into the mayor’s ear, Phil has a whole entourage called the “Inner Circle” who decipher his prediction. The statistical probability of getting a coin toss right is 50 percent. Clear skies bode ill for the weeks ahead as the groundhog will see his shadow and scurry back into his hovel meaning that there will be six more weeks of winter cold in store. In the case of Groundhog Day, they’re given a little nudge to wake up. For centuries, communities across North America have continued a tradition brought over from Europe to predict when the wintery weather will end.

It's Groundhog Day and people are waiting to learn whether a furry critter in a western Pennsylvania town will predict an early spring or six more weeks of ...

According to records dating back to 1887, Phil has predicted winter more than 100 times. People will gather Thursday at Gobbler’s Knob as members of Punxsutawney Phil’s “inner circle” summon him from his tree stump at dawn to learn if he has seen his shadow. The annual event in Punxsutawney originated from a German legend about a furry rodent.