{"id":120170,"date":"2026-02-02T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120170\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:34:25","slug":"watch-punxsutawney-phil-staten-island-chuck-predict-6-more-weeks-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120170\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Punxsutawney Phil, Staten Island Chuck predict 6 more weeks of winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 2 (UPI) &#8212; Famed Pennsylvania groundhog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Punxsutawney_Phil\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Punxsutawney Phil\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Punxsutawney Phil<\/a> saw his shadow Monday morning, predicting six more weeks of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Phil was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/photos-groundhog-day-celebration-punxsutawney-phil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pulled from his burrow<\/a> Monday morning at Gobbler&#8217;s Knob in Punxsutawney and his prognostications were interpreted by a man in a tuxedo and top hat in front of a crowd of thousands of onlookers.\n<\/p>\n<p>The man revealed Phil had seen his shadow, predicting winter will last another six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A study released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2025\/01\/29\/NOAA-groundhog-accuracy-study\/7991738184509\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in 2025 revealed<\/a> Phil has had an accuracy rate of only about 35% in the past couple decades.<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island Chuck, who the NOAA study named as the most accurate weather-predicting groundhog with an accuracy rate of 85%, concurred with Punxsutawney Phil during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/staten-island-chuck-shadow-groundhog-day-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his own Monday morning<\/a> ceremony at the Staten Island Zoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 2 (UPI) &#8212; Famed Pennsylvania groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Monday morning, predicting six more weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1457,35541,9,24,63,35540,52454,134,136,135,1295],"class_list":["post-120170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-odd","tag-punxsutawney-phil","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120170","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=120170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}