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New Jersey groundhogs offer mixed winter predictions

At Turtle Back Zoo in Essex County, Essex Edwina predicted six more weeks of winter.

Adriana Daniel

Feb 2, 2026, 5:59 PM

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Groundhogs in the Garden State were hard at work Monday morning predicting the weather patterns for the next few weeks, but they don't have a consensus.

Essex Edwina, from the Turtle Back Zoo, was scared by her shadow and is forecasting six more weeks of winter.

Meanwhile, Stone Wall Jackson at Space Farms in Sussex County is seeing the future a bit differently. He says we are going to have an early spring.

"I'm not happy with the prediction. I don't know who I'm going to fire, maybe Edwina, but we're going to have to deal with it," said Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr.

Edwina's predictions didn't end with the weather. Edwina is betting on the Seattle Seahawks beating the New England Patriots in San Francisco during Super Bowl LX.

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