Video: Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter Making the 126th annual Groundhog Day prediction, Punxutawney Phil proclaimed there would be "six more weeks of winter" to a crowd of thousands gathered in the Pennsylvania town. "As I look at the crowd on Gobbler's Knob, many shadows do I see, six more weeks of winter it must be," Mike Johnston, vice-president of the Groundhog Club Inner Circle, announced for Phil. German tradition holds that if the hibernating animal sees its shadow in Pennsylvania on Feb 2 - the Christian holiday of Candlemas - winter will last another six weeks. The Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club annually announces Phil's forecast at dawn on Gobbler's Knob, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. Phil's announcement came before thousand of onlookers who huddled in freezing temperatures. The popularity of the event has spiralled since being the subject of a Hollywood film starring Bill Murray in 1993.