MARION, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio’s official weather forecasting groundhog, Buckeye Chuck, offered his 46th forecast and told us when we can expect spring weather to start.
Sunday morning, the Buckeye State’s favorite groundhog attempted to see his shadow at the Marion County Fairgrounds Colosseum.
For the sixth time in the last seven years, Buckeye Chuck did not see his shadow and has predicted an early spring, as announced by 1490 WMRN radio in Marion.
Since 1979, Chuck has been Ohio’s official groundhog and is an animal ambassador, residing at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History behind the studios of WMRN.
He boasts a strong rate of correctly predicting the second half of winter with a more than 55% success rate.
Buckeye Chuck’s accuracy towers over Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania, who is around 35% accurate.
Unlike Chuck, Phil has only predicted an early spring twice in the last six years. That trend continued as Phil saw his shadow Sunday, predicting six more weeks of winter.
This marks the first time since 2022 that Chuck and Phil did not see eye-to-eye.
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