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Buckeye Chuck may make the official weather prediction in Ohio, but he is far from the only groundhog known for his forecast on Groundhog Day, celebrated every Feb. 2. There's also General ...
New York’s Staten Island Chuck topped NOAA’s list with an impressive 85% accuracy rate, followed by Georgia’s General Beauregard Lee in second at 80%, and Wyoming’s Lander Li — a bronze ...
Meanwhile, Staten Island Chuck, who lives in New York’s Staten Island Zoo, won the top spot, with 85% accuracy. The runner-up was General Beauregard Lee from Georgia, with 80% accuracy.
Chuck began predicting the arrival of spring in the 1970s. [3] In addition, the Ohio General Assembly declared Buckeye Chuck the official State Groundhog in 1979. [4] However, from 2006 to 2015, Chuck's forecast was correct only twice. [5] According to the legend of Groundhog Day, the groundhog's behavior is a way of forecasting the weather. If ...
Part of the problem with pinning down an accuracy rate for the groundhog is that what constitutes an early spring is not clearly defined. Assessments of the accuracy of other groundhogs such as Staten Island Chuck use an objective formula. In Chuck's case, a majority of days that reach 40 °F (4 °C) in New York City between Groundhog Day and ...
Phil isn't the only weather-predicting groundhog. Shout out to General Beauregard Lee in Georgia, Buckeye Chuck in Ohio, and Staten Island Chuck in New York. However, Phil is the most famous, and ...
Buckeye Chuck, the official groundhog of Marion, Ohio, United States; Fred la Marmotte, the official groundhog of Val-d'Espoir, Quebec, Canada; General Beauregard Lee, the official groundhog of Jackson, Georgia, United States (and by extension, the entire Southern US) Gus the Groundhog, mascot of the Pennsylvania Lottery
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