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Some areas in the US they're used to getting their weather predictions from other animals like Pisgah the Squirrel or Sylvia the Armadillo.

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.

Boulder's deceased, stuffed, top hat-wearing yellow-bellied marmot will make his annual prediction Sunday morning.