{"id":102833,"date":"2026-02-02T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102833\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:54:07","slug":"patty-pagoda-to-make-weather-prediction-from-penn-street-in-reading-this-groundhog-day-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102833\/","title":{"rendered":"Patty Pagoda to make weather prediction from Penn Street in Reading this Groundhog Day | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Groundhog Day in Reading will look a little different this year.<\/p>\n<p>Patty Pagoda will make her forecast from the 800 block of Penn Street. Officials decided to move the event from the Pagoda over concerns about road conditions on the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Patty is due to predict whether we get\u00a0six more weeks of winter or an early spring around sunrise, about 7:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Reinert, President of Pagoda-Skyline Inc., said the tradition started in 2006. People got together and said that Reading should have its own groundhog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials were advised that handling real groundhogs can be hard to handle, so they went with having a person in a groundhog suit to make the prediction.<\/p>\n<p>Joey Miranda, President of the Foundation for the Reading Pagoda, said organizers decided to move the event to\u00a0Penn Street due to the brutal cold and winds.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog weather watcher in Gobbler&#8217;s Knob, will predict if we\u2019ll have six more weeks of winter or an early spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Groundhog Day in Reading will look a little different this year. Patty Pagoda will make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,3705],"class_list":{"0":"post-102833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-berks","10":"tag-reading-city","11":"tag-reading-city-headlines","12":"tag-reading-city-news","13":"tag-sunrise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}