Punxsutawney Phil predicts winter ahead. Punxsutawney Phil was pulled out of his stump on Saturday and saw his shadow thus predicting six more weeks of winter, according to the Associated Press.

The members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle, all dressed up in tuxedos, carried on the tradition on Saturday and pulled the groundhog out of its den thus giving the forecast for the next weeks. The members are local businessman in the Western Pennsylvania town who dress up to meet the tradition on February 2.

"As I look around me, a bright sky I see, and a shadow beside me. Six more weeks of winter it will be!" said Phil, punxsutawneyphil.com informs.

After the ceremony a party preceded it where couples used the occasion to get engaged.

Every February 2 thousand of people come to town of Punxsutawney with a population of 6,100 people, situated at about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in order to celebrate the Groundhog Day.

The tradition comes from a German superstition which says that if a hibernating animal is pulled out of its burrow on February 2, which is also Candlemas known as the Purification of the Virgin, and doesn’t see its shadow due to cloudy weather, then it means that the winter will soon end and spring will come.

If the animal can see its shadow than it will return to its burrow and the winter will go on for another six weeks.