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"There's a shadow up here, get ready for six more weeks of winter this year," Tom Dunkel, president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, proclaimed.

The first official Groundhog Day took place in 1887 in Punxsutawney.

The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, the group behind the event, has an "inner circle" of 15 people wearing top hats and bowties who are responsible for taking care of Phil and protecting "the legend of the great weather-predicting groundhog".

Punxsutawney Phil - a "weather predicting" groundhog - has forecast six more weeks of winter in the US, disappointing the crowds of people gathered in the Pennsylvania town for the annual Groundhog Day celebrations.

“These kits of his are not replacements, they’re not the heir apparent,” Dan McGinley, vice president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle, said in a phone interview Monday.