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BEE CAVE, Texas – While people up north turned to a groundhog to predict the weather Monday, people in the much warmer climes of Texas looked to animals of a different stripe.<\/p>\n
Punxsutawney Phil, the famed Pennsylvania rodent, saw his shadow during the early morning hours of Groundhog Day<\/a> and predicted six more weeks of winter.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a look at the predictions of some of the four-legged forecasters in Texas on Groundhog Day.<\/p>\n Bee Cave Bob <\/p>\n In the Central Texas town of Bee Cave, Groundhog Day is called Armadillo Day. That is where a nine-banded armadillo named Bob is charged with predicting the future of winter in the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n A crowd gathered in the town Monday to hear from the armored oracle.<\/p>\n “Old Bee Cave didn\u2019t see his shadow,” said Professor Al Manac, head of the Lone Star Weatherological Society. “So, we\u2019re probably going to have three more weeks of winter, but nothing really cold.”<\/p>\n Professor Al Manac, head of the Lone Star Weatherological Society, holds Bee Cave Bob during an Armadillo Day event in Bee Cave, Texas, on Feb. 2, 2026. (FOX 7 Austin)<\/p>\n Big Al <\/p>\n In the marshes of the Southeast Texas coast, people in Beaumont ask a 94-year-old, 14-foot-long alligator named Big Al to tell them what kind of weather to expect.<\/p>\n In a video posted on the Facebook page of the Gator Country Adventure Park<\/a>, handlers tempted the 1,000-pound reptile with a Chick-Fil-A sandwich \u2013 and he bit, meaning an early spring.<\/p>\n Prairie Dog Pete <\/p>\n To foresee the weather, Lubbock also leans on a rodent \u2013 a prairie dog named Pete in Mackenzie Park.<\/p>\n Pete saw his shadow Monday, signaling more winter ahead.<\/p>\n Beans <\/p>\n In Buda, another Central Texas town, they turned to a dachshund named Beans to divine the weather. The honorary mascot of the self-proclaimed Wiener Dog Capital of Texas used squeaky toys to make a prediction.<\/p>\n “Beans did it!” the Greater Buda Chamber of Commerce posted on its Facebook page. “Our Honorary Ground Dog says an early spring is coming to Buda, Texas!”\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story came from social media, videos and previous reporting by FOX Local.<\/p>\n Texas<\/a>Winter Weather<\/a>Pets and Animals<\/a>Lifestyle<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEE CAVE, Texas – While people up north turned to a groundhog to predict the weather Monday, people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[242,5163,27,29,28,216,393,172,9181],"class_list":{"0":"post-148086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-lifestyle","9":"tag-pets-animals","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-weather","16":"tag-winter-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Professor](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bee-cave-bob.jpg\")
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