Groundhog Day forecast: Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring

Groundhog Day forecast: Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring

Double Take 'Toons: Groundhog Day 2013. February 02, 2013 5:11 AM. Throughout North America, wily woodchucks will forecast whether winter will continue for an additional six weeks. Randy Bish ponders whether petulance will prevent a prediction out of

Meet the Groundhogs. This photo shows New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, holding the city's prognosticating rodent, Charles G. Hogg, also known as Staten Island Chuck, at the Staten Island Zoo during Groudhog Day festivities on Feb. 2, 2009.

For most Americans, Groundhog Day is a quaint oddity or a movie starring Bill Murray. For Punxsutawney Phil Sowerby, the Pennsylvania critter who'll be dragged out of his burrow Saturday by men in top hats to look for his shadow, the day must be a

While New York's prognosticating groundhog, Staten Island Chuck, primps for his annual turn in the spotlight on Saturday, the Real Groundhogs of New York City are slumbering hard in their boroughs.

A double feature of “Groundhog Day” and “Groundhog Day,” 6:30 p.m. Saturday, SIFF Cinema at the Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle; $15 (206-324-9996 or www.siff.net). Actor Stephen Tobolowsky will be present for a Q&A session, and will sign