The point is there are not very many animal predicting heroes in the world.
Here is a list of the predictions by Phil:
| Year | Prediction |
|---|---|
| 1887–1888 | Long winter (Phil beats out random guess as best predictor of weather) |
| 1889 | No record (No entertainment for the whole year, people pray for the invention of the T.V.) |
| 1890 | Early spring (Phil hailed as most accurate predictor since Nostradamus) |
| 1891–1897 | No record (The nation perceives having an animal predict the weather as insane and put full faith in science. Famine is eradicated, interplanetary travel becomes common, and world wide peace is achieved. |
| 1898 | Long winter (All memory and evidence of 91-97 wiped out and we go back to the groundhog) |
| 1899 | No record (groundhog weather predicting somehow seen as not important enough to record) |
| 1900–1901 | Long winter (First time Phil is wrong, thousands perish, by becoming slightly overheated with too many layers on) |
| 1902 | Early spring (Second time Phil is wrong, thousands perish from slight chill and low sweater production) |
| 1903–1933 | Long winter (Longest winter in recorded history, lasts for thirty years) |
| 1934 | Early spring (Phil forced to not see shadow by angry mob) |
| 1935–1941 | Long winter (The years known only as "Phil's Revenge") |
| 1942 | "War clouds have blacked out parts of the shadow." (A real quote, but let's face it a bit of a cop out since there were no war clouds blacking out parts of the shadow........oh I don't know...EVERY YEAR BEFORE AND SINCE. |
| 1943 | No appearance ( World War II) (Not a cop out because Phil was actually drafted) |
| 1944–1949 | Long winter (Phil finds a cure for cancer, becomes first animal to start talking, and builds early model for the Internet, but people only focus on the "long winter/early spring" thing |
| 1950 | Early spring (Phil falls into a deep depression. Drinks heavily, assaults a Squirrel, sees shadows EVERYWHERE.) |
| 1951–1969 | Long winter (Phil builds a fall out shelter and predicts "Last Winter") |
| 1970 | Early spring (Phil becomes an activist and endorses "Silent Spring" as this years theme, no one listens, he's a groundhog.) |
| 1971–1974 | Long winter (Phil wrong again, thousands die from poorly planned vacations) |
| 1975 | Early spring (Phil enters new stage of life where he accepts himself) |
| 1976–1982 | Long winter (early spring sunburn cream companies go out of business) |
| 1983 | Early spring (100% of population get early spring sunburn) |
| 1984–1985 | Long winter ( Phil mysteriously becomes a billionaire by investing in mittens and snow shovels) |
| 1986 | Early spring (he's right) |
| 1987 | Long winter (he's wrong) |
| 1988 | Early spring(right) |
| 1989 | Long winter(wrong) |
| 1990 | Early spring (starts to not care as much) |
| 1991–1994 | Long winter (Phil entangled in nasty scandal using Doplar 10 radar) |
| 1995 | Early spring (rumors swirl about his relationship with men wearing top hats and scruffy beards kissing Phil) |
| 1996 | Long winter (Phil starts to just flip a coin) |
| 1997 | Early spring (Phil gets management) |
| 1998 | Long winter(The "inner circle" of the Phil fan club have a secret elixir they give Phil that increases his life span by seven years and has kept him alive for over 121 years)-I didn't make his one up by the way |
| 1999 | Early spring (Phil prays for the sweet calming embrace of death) |
| 2000–2006 | Long winter (Buckeye Chuck, Wiarton Willie, and Shubenacadie Sam fill out the ranks of groundhogs that predicts the weather at worse than random chance.) |
| 2007 | Early spring (Phil reflects on his life and writes memoir "Between Light and Shadows") |
| 2008–2010 | Long winter ( Meteorologists around the world beg Phil for his amazing ability to predict the weather correctly 39% of the time, or put another way: 11% worse than random chance. or put yet another way, still 25% better than the average weather man. |
| 2011 | Early spring (Phil is call a liar) |
