{"id":119939,"date":"2026-02-02T13:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119939\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:22:21","slug":"groundhog-day-2026-how-to-watch-staten-island-chucks-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119939\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day 2026: How to watch Staten Island Chuck&#8217;s prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">STATEN ISLAND &#8211; Staten Island Chuck, the Staten Island Zoo\u2019s famous groundhog, is set to take place in his annual Groundhog Day ceremony.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">FOX 5 NY will stream live coverage of the event. To stream from anywhere, you can watch live in the media player above or download our app, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">FOX LOCAL<\/a>, to watch on your smart TV or phone. <a href=\"https:\/\/foxlocal.onelink.me\/6abq\/092oy1pe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here<\/a> to download our mobile app now. You can also watch raw, un-anchored coverage of the event on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fox5ny\/streams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>   About Staten Island Chuck <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The furry friend has been accurate more than 80% of the time, dating back to the first Groundhog Day festivities at the Staten Island Zoo in 1981, according to zoo officials.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770038541_691_GettyImages-462655678.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Staten Island Chuck, a groundhog who, according to tradition, looks for his shadow to predict whether or not the region will experience six more weeks of winter or the coming of spring, looks on at the Staten Island Zoo on February 2, 2015 in the Sta <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Chuck has been known to be a little grumpy and problematic, even biting mayors, as he did with Mayor Bloomberg back in 2009.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">New Yorkers will also recall <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/groundhog-day-updates#0000018d-69ae-d410-ad8f-fdef1b590000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the notorious debacle<\/a> at the celebration 10 years ago, when a previous Staten Island Chuck wriggled out of the hands of then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and fell to the ground. That Chuck died a week later.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">An autopsy revealed he suffered internal injuries, but it was not clear if they stemmed from the fall.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/holidays\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holidays<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND &#8211; Staten Island Chuck, the Staten Island Zoo\u2019s famous groundhog, is set to take place in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[969,9,24,12,63,134,136,135,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-119939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-holidays","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-staten-island","14":"tag-staten-island-headlines","15":"tag-staten-island-news","16":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119939","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=119939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}