"This is the famous Punxsutawney Phil in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. <a href=""http://www.groundhog.org/groundhog-day/history/"" target=""_blank"">Groundhog Day</a> is a tradition in the United States and Canada that celebrates a groundhog's emergence from his winter den. Superstition holds that if a groundhog sees his shadow as he leaves the burrow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather. If the groundhog does not see his shadow, you can expect an early spring. Native Americans also have traditions of animals predicting the weather, and<a href=""http://www.native-languages.org/legends-groundhog.htm"" target=""_blank""> groundhogs figure prominently in their religions and mythology</a>."
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