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# Groundhog Day 2024: Punxsutawney Phil Predicts an Early Spring

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## Video: Groundhog Day 2024: Punxsutawney Phil Predicts an Early Spring

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_Published 2024-02-02. Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring Friday in Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania, the scene of the country’s largest and best known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States._


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## Transcript

What Champions do? It's Punxsutawney Phil. Hear ye hear ye now on this February 2nd Punxsutawney Phil. The Sears Sears prognosticator of all prognosticators was awakened from his wintry nap at dawn gobblers, Knob Hill look to the skies and then speaking in groundhogese directed the president to the proper scroll which reads Another winter Slumber pause so I could meet the crowd hard to sleep. Anyway, when the parties this loud. I envy your energy I envy the fun. I envy all of you and your opposable thumbs. But it's not what I feel. It's what I see and what you hear so gather round and let me be clear.

Atmosphere is a wonderful thing and we can create our own and the weather it brings. It brings hope for the future and so much more maybe some Punxsutawney Phil write-in votes in 2024. But what this weather did not provide is a shadow or Reason to hide Glad Tidings on this Groundhog Day in early spring is on the way.

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