{"id":446349,"date":"2026-02-03T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446349\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:11:07","slug":"bee-cave-bob-does-not-see-his-shadow-predicting-early-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/446349\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Cave Bob does not see his shadow, predicting early spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEE CAVE, Texas \u2014 Bee Cave Bob, the weather-predicting armadillo, emerged from his burrow at the West Pole on Monday and did not see his shadow, forecasting three more weeks of winter and an early spring.<\/p>\n<p>The prediction came on Armadillo Day, a Texas twist on the traditional Groundhog Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We decided that the Texas small mammal was a better thing to predict Texas weather than a Yankee rodent named Punxsutawney Phil,&#8221; said armadillo handler Tex Chamness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/nation-world\/6-more-weeks-of-winter-punxsutawney-phil-sees-his-shadow-predicts-more-winter-weather-gobblers-knob-inner-circle-punxsutawney-groundhog-club-groundhog-day-pennsylvania?fbclid=IwY2xjawPuE5FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEez_EA1KkKZh5ec7TJYjBBqMmDwiXo-owD0H-bfzW0anJPiwEptghC8gcp4wY_aem_F6_UV9IehXARJUOlWnAsxw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | 6 More Weeks of Winter! Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, predicts more winter weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Kara King attended the festivities at the West Pole, where Bee Cave Bob made his annual appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast for an early spring comes as welcome news to residents still recovering from the recent bout of<a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-prepares-for-icy-roads-and-freezing-rain-as-early-morning-cold-front-hits-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> winter weather.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bee Cave Bob has been making weather predictions for the city for 16 years, Chamness said, becoming a beloved local tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEE CAVE, Texas \u2014 Bee Cave Bob, the weather-predicting armadillo, emerged from his burrow at the West Pole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-446349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446349","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=446349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}