Other rodents predict an early spring [Video]

Groundhog Day was Sunday, and Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania saw his shadow, predicting wintry weather for six more weeks.However, the iconic Pennsylvania woodchuck is not the only groundhog whose human handlers made annual announcements in the past few days about whether they’ve seen their own shadows and are predicting six more weeks of winter or an early spring.Video above: More about Punxsutawney Phil’s Groundhog Day prediction on Sunday, Feb. 2Some dismiss the Punxsutawney event as an unworthy rival to their own festivities, which they say forecast more accurate weather predictions. There have been weather-predicting groundhogs in at least 28 U.S. states and Canadian provinces, and less formal celebrations far and wide.Groundhogs aren’t the only critters who traditionally make weather predictions in celebration of the midpoint between the shortest and darkest day of the year and the spring equinox.This year, some of the critters who make weather predictions have a differing …