This photo of a groundhog in Alabama won Outdoor Alabama Magazine's photo contest in 2007. (Photo by Jeremy Standlee/Outdoor Alabama Magazine) ...

Punxsutawney Phil, the country’s most famous groundhog, reportedly saw no shadow and predicted an early spring. Sand Mountain Sam, another opossum practicing in north Alabama, did his thing on ...

On average, Phil has gotten it right only 40% of the time over the past 10 years. This is the 136th year that Phil has made his prediction. Groundhog Day's origins lie in an ancient European ...

WVTM 13 Birmingham. How accurate are the groundhogs? Alabama's possum is more accurate. Posted: January 30, 2025 | Last updated: June 19, 2025. How accurate are the groundhogs?

Huntsville, Alabama (WAFF) — Groundhog Day is Saturday, but people in Albertville, Alabama didn’t have to wait for a prediction on an early Spring or six more weeks of winter.

Albertville, AL- "Sand Mountain Sam," an Alabama possum, has emerged earlier than Punxsutawney Phil by one day, ... Alabama Possum Beats Groundhog to Weather Prediction. Feb 1, 2019 ...

We don’t have groundhog access but the three of us, Charlie Abernathy, grandson Lane Marler, and your scribe, have our three February indicators of an early spring’s arrival.