[OC] Accuracy of America’s Spring Predicting Groundhogs (And Other Animals…)
Posted by GetTheFactsHTV
![[OC] Accuracy of America's Spring Predicting Groundhogs (And Other Animals...)](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1rpv576vlahg1-922x1536.png "[OC] Accuracy of America’s Spring Predicting Groundhogs (And Other Animals…)")
[OC] Accuracy of America’s Spring Predicting Groundhogs (And Other Animals…)
Posted by GetTheFactsHTV
15 Comments
Hi everyone! Here’s a graph on the accuracy of America’s spring predicting animals! The data comes from the NOAA (2005 – 2024) and only includes groundhogs with at least 20 predictions on their resumes.
[Read more about these groundhogs (and other animals…) here! ](https://www.kcra.com/article/punxsutawney-phil-groundhog-accuracy/70206226)
*Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Visualization made with Datawrapper*
I don’t come on here for this Punxsutawney Phil blasphemy ok.
TIL there are other predicting animals besides Punxsutawney Phil.
Here to promote Sand Mountain Sam, north Alabamas forecasting possum. Only been wrong once in thirty years!! (So they say)
Punxsutawney Phil is worse at his job than a *taxidermied* groundhog? Coasting on his name recognition and movie fame, I suppose. There aren’t many people who could keep a gig if they’re under-performing a cadaver.
I saw this yesterday. I don’t think it’s OC.
Punxsutawney Phil’s predictive power can be almost doubled if you just flip it’s predictions to opposite. Unfortunately still below Staten Island
So basically Punxsutawney Phil is like the iPhone of spring predicting animals…all hype and widely underperforming its competition
Statin Island Chuck has mob connections and boosts his stats through intimidation, insider information, and under the table deals.
Punxsutawney Phil plays a different game. He has more prognostication power than the others, but instead of worrying about accuracy he tells us what we need to hear.
I’d sewer the whole thing too if they tossed me around like they toss Phil. Poor little guy almost got simba’d off the stage.
There should also the number of predictions each has made.
Punxsutawney Phil is washed. Sad to see!
I live like 20 mins from Gertie the groundhog. I just mentioned her yesterday to my wife. Didn’t know gertie was so much better than Phil. Suck it phil
If Punxsutawney Phil was a baseball player, his .350 lifetime batting average would make him a first ballot Hall of Famer.
What the hell is going on in West Virginia? How can a “presumed groundhog” see its shadow?