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The Groundhog Day ceremony held at Punxsutawney in western Pennsylvania, ... 2021 was the 135th celebration, and for the first time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
The January 31 – February 3, 2021 nor'easter, also known as the 2021 Groundhog Day nor'easter, [6] was a powerful, severe, and erratic nor'easter that impacted much of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada from February 1–3 with heavy snowfall, blizzard conditions, strong gusty winds, storm surge, and coastal flooding. [7]
AJ Dereume, groundhog handler, holds Punxsutawney Phil after he did not see his shadow predicting an early Spring during the 138th annual Groundhog Day festivities on Feb. 2, 2024, in Punxsutawney ...
Though Phil's predictions are not always correct and was only right around 40% of the time between 2012 and 2021, ... The origins of Groundhog Day date back to German settlers in the 1800s and the ...
Fun fact about Groundhog Day: There's an estimated 82 weather-predicting critters in the United States and Canada, according to Groundhog-Day.com. But if you want to know six famous groundhogs in ...
Prior to 1993, the Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney attracted crowds of approximately 2,000. The popularity of the film Groundhog Day brought significantly more attention to the event, with annual crowds rising to 10,000–20,000. A notable exception was 2021, when the event took place without any crowds due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Freas is credited with starting the holiday on Feb. 2, 1886, after he wrote an article in the Punxsutawney Spirit that claimed the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil could predict the weather.
Punxsutawney Phil's handler A.J. Dereume holds the famous groundhog during the 136th Groundhog Day, at Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, U.S., February 2, 2022.