NOAA set a few ground rules. The groundhogs and "alternative groundhogs" must have been prognosticating for at least 20 years ...

The weather-predicting groundhog celebrity has met two presidents and drinks a life-extending elixir: "Our Phil is like, probably 139 years old," Groundhog Club Inner Circle President Tom Dunkel says.

Groundhog Day is soon, and groundhogs of Long Island will determine if we'll see spring arrive early or if we'll have six more weeks of winter.