Groundhog predictions: Phil tops Beau

An analysis of weather data and yearly groundhog predictions reveals that Punxsutawney Phil, Pennsylvania's famous prognosticator, more accurately guessed spring's arrival than Lilburn's Gen. Beauregard Lee.

This, of course, according to an exhaustive (well, one or two days, anyway) Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation into 15 years of National Weather Service data compared with Groundhog Day guessing records.

Check out our database of groundhog predictions and see how the Marmot Monax's predictions fared between 1994 and 2008.