Buckeye Chuck
Ohio's official groundhog since 1979, Buckeye Chuck provides a Groundhog Day prediction every year on February 2nd for radio station 1490 WMRN-AM in Marion, Ohio. Originally, Buckeye Chuck was a groundhog who resided in the woods near the station, and radio host Charlie "Chuck" Evers (who the groundhog would eventually be named after) would regularly stick his microphone in the groundhog's burrow. Evers started reporting on the groundhog's predictions each Groundhog Day, and the Buckeye Chuck tradition was born. Today, Chuck is portrayed by a groundhog ambassador from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History named Murray, but the original Chuck still exists as a taxidermy groundhog that resides at WMRN.
Buckeye Chuck's Past Predictions
Early Spring : 71.11% (32 predictions)
Long Winter : 28.89% (13 predictions)
2025 Prediction: Early Spring
2024 Prediction: Early Spring
2023 Prediction: Long Winter
2022 Prediction: Early Spring
2021 Prediction: Early Spring
2020 Prediction: Early Spring
2019 Prediction: Early Spring
2018 Prediction: Long Winter
2017 Prediction: Long Winter
2016 Prediction: Long Winter
2015 Prediction: Early Spring
2014 Prediction: Early Spring
2013 Prediction: Early Spring
2012 Prediction: Early Spring
2011 Prediction: Early Spring
2010 Prediction: Early Spring
2009 Prediction: Long Winter
2008 Prediction: Early Spring
2007 Prediction: Early Spring
2006 Prediction: Long Winter
2005 Prediction: Long Winter
2004 Prediction: Long Winter
2003 Prediction: Early Spring
2002 Prediction: Long Winter
2001 Prediction: Early Spring
2000 Prediction: Early Spring
1999 Prediction: Early Spring
1998 Prediction: Early Spring
1997 Prediction: Early Spring
1996 Prediction: Early Spring
1995 Prediction: Early Spring
1994 Prediction: Long Winter
1993 Prediction: Long Winter
1992 Prediction: Long Winter
1991 Prediction: Early Spring
1990 Prediction: Early Spring
1989 Prediction: Early Spring
1988 Prediction: Early Spring
1987 Prediction: Early Spring
1986 Prediction: Early Spring
1985 Prediction: Early Spring
1984 Prediction: Long Winter
1983 Prediction: Early Spring
1982 Prediction: No Prediction
1981 Prediction: Early Spring
1980 Prediction: Early Spring
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