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Saskatchewan's Groundhog Day critter also 'predicts' Roughriders' season

It's Groundhog Day and all eyes were on Saskatchewan's Whelan Woody for his annual winter prognostications weather and football.

Whelan Woody saw shadow, so 10 more weeks of winter, owner says

Woody Woodchuck from Whelan Bay, Sask., is making his third Groundhog Day prognostication. (@woody_the_woodchuck/Instagram)

It's Groundhog Day and all eyes were on Saskatchewan's Whelan Woody for his annual winter prognostications weather and football.

Woody, a woodchuckwho lives in Shanno Lidster's home near Whelan Bay, saw his shadow on Thursday morning.

That means 10 more weeks of winter, Lidster says, noting in Saskatchewan it's more realisticto add another four weeks to the usual six week forecast.

Lidster, with tongue firmly in cheek, addsthe rodentalso sees good things coming for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the CFL club that was struggling last season.

It was a losing season for the Saskatchewan Roughriders last year, but a woodchuck is predicting better times ahead, its owner says. (Mark Taylor/The Canadian Press)

"This season he's heard that we're in for ... new beginnings," she said.

"We've got a new quarterback, we've got a lot of new players and he's very positive about this season. It's going to be new."

In his three years of prognostication, says Lidster, Woody has been accurate each year at least when it comes to the weather.

As far as the Riders go, only time will tell.