General Beauregard Lee has made his official Groundhog Day prediction: It will be an early spring.
The Georgia groundhog with the distinctly southern name emerged from his tiny southern mansion on Friday morning to make his annual prediction, part of the wider Groundhog Day traditions celebrated around the U.S. and Canada.
General Beauregard Lee is Georgia’s official weather prognosticator, but he’s not the only groundhog forecaster around. There’s also Staten Island Chuck in New York, Buckeye Chuck in Ohio and most famously, Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania.
A livestream of the event started at 7:30 a.m. ET on the Dauset Trails Nature Center Facebook page and ended shortly after General Beauregard Lee’s Groundhog Day prediction.
How accurate is Punxsutawney Phil? His Groundhog Day predictions aren’t great, data shows.
Who is General Beauregard Lee?
General Beauregard Lee is not the first groundhog forecaster in Georgia. He has been around since 1991, after replacing General Robert E. Lee, a groundhog named for the Confederate general who began making predictions in 1981.