Groundhog Club handler A.J. Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog
(Picture: AP)There will be six more weeks of winter, Punxsutawney Phil predicted as he emerged from his burrow to perform his Groundhog Day duties.
Thousands of people from around the nation and other countries gathered at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania as members of the famous animal’s “inner circle” summoned him from his tree stump at dawn to learn if he had seen his shadow, a message they said Phil communicated in “groundhogese”.
