According to popular US tradition, the groundhog, a small furry animal, (0) COMES OUT of its winter sleep on 2 February.
If the sky is clear, he sees his shadow. This means, there are going to be six more weeks of weather and he returns to his hole. If the day is cloudy and he can’t see his shadow, it means there will be an spring and he stays above ground. Each year reporters in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, at dawn and a large of cameras are focused on the burrow of a groundhog called Punxsutawney Phil.
In 1993, the Hollywood movie Groundhog Day Phil into a major celebrity and the following February, over 40.000 people in Punxsutawney. Unfortunately, the large crowds were hoping for a prediction of good weather, Phil saw his shadow and returned to his hole, so everyone knew that winter was going to for a few more weeks.