Punxsutawney Phil will be the best-known weather-predicting groundhog, however a brand new listing is throwing shade on how a lot his predictions ought to be trusted — whereas New York Metropolis’s rodent prognosticator is tops within the nation. Phil — who with the assistance of handlers bases his prediction on if he sees his shadow — got here in seventeenth out of 19 critters ranked by Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Nationwide Facilities for Environmental Data’s grading the groundhogs listing. In truth, Phil did so poorly that taxidermized critters have been discovered to be higher at forecasting an early spring.…
