Warm temps are near, Punxsutawney Phil predicts

Published February 2, 2013 7:27pm ET



(CNN)If you were hoping to be done with winter, Punxsutawney Phil had some good news for you — spring is on the way.

After the groundhog was summoned from his burrow at the Gobbler’s Knob hill in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, observers proclaimed that “the prognosticator of all prognosticators” had not seen his shadow.

Meanwhile, at New York’s Staten Island Zoo, fellow groundhog Staten Island Chuck also didn’t see his shadow, agreeing that an early spring was on its way.

The Staten Island event has happened for 32 years. Punxsutawney’s celebration goes back 127 years.

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