Indiana lawmakers put potential fees for meal delivery and ride-share services inside of proposed road funding bill.

While Groundhog Day remains a fun tradition, meteorologists rely on data and computer models for more accurate forecasts. This year, the National Weather Service said it's a toss-up whether Illinois will see an early spring.

According to a 2022 study by FiveThirtyEight.com, Beau boasts a 63% accuracy rate for predictions from 2012 to 2021, outshining Phil’s 45.5%. The Dauset Trails Nature Center claims Beau’s accuracy is even higher, somewhere in the 90% range.

Punxsutawney Phil prepares his forecast for Groundhog Day, but Alabama's possum, Sand Mountain Sam, has a better track record.

Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil might be the most known weather-predicting groundhog, but a new study is throwing shade on how much his predictions should be trusted. Phil did so poorly that taxidermied critters are better at forecasting an early spring.

The leading contenders to head NOAA include a former acting head of the agency, a Shell executive and an ex-Interior Department official. Why it matters: As one of the agencies that affects Americans' daily lives via weather forecasts and warnings,

The great Charles Dickens used the phrase in "Oliver Twist" writing, "We cut over the fields at the back, with him between us — straight as the crow flies — through hedge and ditch." But how exactly did the groundhog become the deciding factor — at least in the realm of myth and mystery — in determining when exactly winter will end and spring begins?

Will we have six more weeks freezing weather or will spring flowers be popping up soon? It's all up to the prediction of Georgia's General Beauregard "Beau" Lee.

Will we have an early spring or more winter? General Beauregard "Beau" Lee, Georgia's famous groundhog, will make his prediction this Sunday.

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