Apart from being Groundhog Day in USA, what Christian festival is observed on.February 2nd?
Groundhog Day of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In French Canada, Fred la marmotte of Val-d'Espoir has been the representative forecaster for the province of Quebec since 2009. A study also shows that in Quebec, the marmot or groundhog ("siffleux") are regarded as Candlemas weather-predicting beasts in some scattered spots, but the bear is the more usual animal. In 2017 Groundhog Day was scheduled to be observed at zoos in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Samara, Russia. The Pennsylvania Dutch were immigrants from German-speaking areas of Europe. The Germans already had a tradition of marking Candlemas (February 2) as "Badger Day" ("Dachstag"), where if a
Groundhog Day gridlock. In the American South, the General Beauregard Lee of Lilburn, Georgia is known to have the most accurate prediction, standing at 94%. The University of Dallas in Irving, Texas has boasted of hosting the second largest Groundhog celebration in the world. The day is observed with various ceremonies at other locations in North America beyond the United States, including Wiarton Willie of Wiarton, Ontario, and Shubenacadie Sam in Nova Scotia which, due to Nova Scotia's Atlantic Time Zone, makes the first Groundhog Day prediction in North America. "Daks Day" (from the German "dachs") is Groundhog Day in the dialect