{"id":445590,"date":"2026-02-03T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445590\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:45:07","slug":"sand-mountain-sam-makes-his-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445590\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Mountain Sam makes his prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SAND MOUNTAIN, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WAFF<\/a>) &#8211; Sand Mountain Sam has officially made his decision on whether or not he believes we will have an early spring or a longer winter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sand Mountain Sam, an Alabama opossum who is nearly perfect in his 30 years of forecasting, has revealed his prediction for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"> Sam did not see his shadow, so he predicted an early spring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\">Click Here to Subscribe on YouTube:<\/a> Watch the latest WAFF 48 news, sports &amp; weather videos on our YouTube channel!<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WAFF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAND MOUNTAIN, Ala. (WAFF) &#8211; Sand Mountain Sam has officially made his decision on whether or not he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[209532,79,201],"class_list":["post-445590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-sandmountain-sam","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}