{"id":119778,"date":"2026-02-02T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119778\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:48:07","slug":"groundhog-day-2026-nyc-live-stream-time-to-watch-staten-island-chucks-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119778\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day 2026 NYC live stream: Time to watch Staten Island Chuck\u2019s prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.\u2014 Ok, Chuck, bring on the warm weather. <\/p>\n

Staten Island Chuck, the borough\u2019s most well-known rodent, is set to make his annual Groundhog Day prediction on Monday. <\/p>\n

The Groundhog Day ceremony, which is set to take place on Monday, Feb. 2, at the Staten Island Zoo in West Brighton, will be closed to the public this year due to the weather, however it will be streamed online.<\/p>\n

The ceremony, featuring Staten Island Chuck, will begin on Monday at 8 a.m. Fans of Chuck are invited to tune-in and watch the proceedings live on the Staten Island Zoo\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n

The Staten Island Advance\/SILive.com will also be on hand to cover the prediction. You\u2019ll be able to catch the ceremony live from our Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chuck\u2019s appearance and prediction are expected to occur at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

For the early birds among us, Chuck\u2019s chief competition, Punxsutawney Phil, will also be making a prediction on Monday. <\/p>\n

Festivities in the Keystone State will begin around 6 a.m., and a livestream of Phil\u2019s prediction can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Accuracy rate<\/p>\n

On Groundhog Day 2025, Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow at Gobbler\u2019s Knob<\/a>. Staten Island Chuck, however, again predicted an early spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the StormFax Weather Almanac<\/a>, Phil has an overall accuracy rate of 39% over 135 years. Chuck, on the other hand, has an 85% accuracy rate since he\u2019s been monitoring weather beginning in 1981, according to data. <\/p>\n

History of the holiday<\/p>\n

The Groundhog Day tradition can be traced to Candlemas, an early Christian holiday where candles were blessed and distributed. According to tradition, clear skies on Candlemas meant a longer winter.<\/p>\n

When German immigrants arrived in Pennsylvania, they found a large number of groundhogs. And they tasked the groundhog, which resembles the European hedgehog, with the job of predicting the weather.<\/p>\n

The holiday started with the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, founded in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in 1887. The editor of the Punxsutawney newspaper was a member of the club, and he claimed that Punxsutawney Phil was the only true weather-predicting groundhog.<\/p>\n

Chuck has been making his prediction for more than three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.\u2014 Ok, Chuck, bring on the warm weather. Staten Island Chuck, the borough\u2019s most well-known rodent,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-119778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}