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Punxsutawney Phil, the ground hog who's the star of Ground Hog Day (the holiday, not the Bill Murray movie), is back. Legend says if he sees his shadow on Feb. 2, it's a sunny day, which obviously means he'll freak out and retreat to his burrow and we'll have six more weeks of winter. If it's cloudy out, he'll go about whatever it is that ground hogs do, and spring is right around the corner.

During the rest of the year, Phil lives with a lady ground hog named Phyllis in the town library in Punxsutawney, Penn.

Many mysteries surround the rodent, not least how he has managed to predict the weather for the past 121 years, when ground hogs in captivity -- er, domesticity -- rarely make it past 14 years, if ever. Locals swear there's only ever been the one Punxsutawney Phil.

This information is totally accurate, as we got it from Wikipedia. You could look it up. See if we lie!

Over the years it's become clear that Puxsutawney Phil has a pretty good record, but not a great one. He's been right 38 percent of the time, according to the good folks at Stormfax Weather Almanac, who have been keeping track, apparently.

We wouldn't ask Puxsutawney Phil to play the market for us with those odds. Though if we were any good at it, we wouldn't be writing for a living.