(2 Feb 2025)
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Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania – 2 February 2025
1. Various of Phil coming out from his tree strum and made prediction about winter
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Carole Roberts, resident, Debra Delaney, visitor from Philadelphia:
Carole Roberts: “You know, we are a small town, but we’re proud of our traditions here. And we have kids and family and friends from years and years that come back year after year. And some of us haven’t been here many times. But when we get here, we have a good time.”
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Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania – 1 February 2025
3. Wide of Groundhog day signage
4. Visitor taking photo
5. Cutaway of signage reads, “Weather Capital, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania”
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Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania – 2 February 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Lovitch, visitor from New York:
“I’m on my 33rd Groundhog Day. I’ve been coming here since this thing was a small little event with, like, 500 people. And now here I am, 33 years later, pushing 50."
++NIGHT SHOTS++
7. Wide of stage
8. Various of attendee holding a groundhog sign and singing
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Lovitch, visitor from New York:
“So, I think a lot of people come here because they hate the winter. They hate the cold. They have cabin fever and they want to get outside. So when they come here, they’re hoping that Phil will tell them, hey, it’s just around the corner, it’s coming. Boy, it doesn’t matter what he says. You’re going to have to wait until March for spring anyway, because it is still winter. You’d better enjoy it.”
11. Close of fireworks
12. Mid of attendee watching fireworks
13. Mid of attendee chanting, UPSOUND (English) "Phil.."
STORYLINE:
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Sunday and predicted six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced to a raucus, record-sized crowd at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania.
Phil was welcomed with chants of “Phil, Phil, Phil,” and pulled from a hatch on his tree stump shortly after sunrise before a member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club read from a scroll in which he boasted: “Only I know — you can’t trust A.I.”
The woodchuck’s weather forecast is an annual ritual that goes back more than a century in western Pennsylvania, with far older roots in European folklore, but it took Bill Murray’s 1993 “Groundhog Day” movie to transform the event into what it is today, with tens of thousands of revelers at the scene and imitators scattered around the United States and beyond.
When Phil is deemed to have not seen his shadow, that is said to usher in an early spring. When he does see it, there will be six more weeks of winter.
The crowd was treated to a fireworks show, confetti and live music that ranged from the Ramones to “Pennsylvania Polka” as they awaited sunrise and Phil’s emergence. Gov. Josh Shapiro, local and state elected officials and a pair of pageant winners were among the dignitaries at the scene.
Self-employed New York gingerbread artist Jon Lovitch has attended the event for 33 years.
“I like the cold, you know, and this is probably the best and biggest midwinter party in the entire world,” Lovitch said in Punxsutawney. “And it’s just a really good time.”
AP Video by Tassanee Vejpongsa
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