Punxsutawney Phil has been predicting the length of each winter for over a century (Credit: Chris Flook. CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons)

This past weekend's brutal winter storms brought record snowfall and caused widespread power outages across much of the US East Coast. However, those hoping for an early spring are in for a disappointment. On February 2, aka Groundhog Day, America's furriest weather predictor extraordinaire, Punxsutawney Phil, saw his shadow and forecasted six more weeks of winter.