A Not-Very-Scientific Prediction

February 2, 2019 Lisa Mungovan

It’s Groundhog Day! The official weather-predicting groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, will emerge from his burrow and look for his shadow. If he sees it, that means 6 more weeks of winter. But Martinsburg Maxwell, a groundhog with a degree in meteorology, said, “Phil’s only right 20% of the time; it’s impossible to accurately predict weather that way!”