UPDATE: Punxsutawney Phil has made his prediction.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Those who wish to watch Punxsutawney Phil make his prediction will have to do it via live stream this year.
While tens of thousands of people traditionally travel to Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., to watch, the ceremony was closed to the public this year due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Instead, everyone can watch beginning at 6:30 a.m. on the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club’s website.
THE TRADITION’S ORIGINS
The Groundhog Day tradition can be traced to Candlemas, an early Christian holiday where candles were blessed and distributed. Those who celebrated Candlemas decided that clear skies on the holiday meant a longer winter.
The Germans eventually began to believe that if the sun made an appearance on Candlemas Day, a hedgehog would cast a shadow -- predicting six more weeks of harsh winter weather. And it was the Germans who brought this belief to the United States.
When German immigrants arrived in Pennsylvania, they found a large number of groundhogs. And they tasked the groundhog, which resembles a European hedgehog, with the job of predicting the weather.
The tradition was started by the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club in 1887. The editor of the Punxsutawney newspaper was a member of the club, and he claimed that Phil was the only true weather-predicting groundhog.
WATCH PHIL’S PREDICTION
Those interested in seeing Punxsutawney Phil make his prediction can view it here.
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