The state’s official groundhog Chuckles XI turned himself into the Manchester Police Department after police in Guilford issued an “arrest warrant” for the famous 3-year-old rodent. The “charges” were brought against the groundhog after its predictions of an early spring were shattered by a major snowstorm that dumped nearly a foot of snow across parts of the state earlier this week. Now the .
True hibernators, groundhogs usually den-up in October, their winter body temperature dropping to 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and their heart slowing to a few beats per minute.
General Beauregard “Beau” Lee, Georgia’s official groundhog weather forecaster, waddled out of his mini-antebellum style mansion on a 37-degree morning Friday, Feb. 2 to predict that Georgia will see an