February 2nd is Groundhog Day: How close is Spring, really?

February 2nd is Groundhog Day, a day that has been looked upon for centuries to determine the arrival of spring.

Nowadays the tradition is purely for entertainment purposes. Hollywood made a motion picture appropriately titled “Groundhog Day” and each year thousands of people descend upon Gobbler’s Knob in a small town in Pennsylvania to see if the infamous Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil will see his shadow or not.

Groundhog Day’s first modern observance can be traced back to 1886 when the Punxsutawney Spirit printed “Today is Groundhog day, and up to the time of going to press the beast has not...