Groundhog Day is Sunday, Feb. 2. California doesn't have a Groundhog Day celebration, but in a variation on the tradition, The Living Desert in Palm Desert uses a desert tortoise, Mojave Maxine, to indicate when spring has arrived.

Will spring arrive early? We will find out Sunday whether the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow or not.

Groundhog Day may be one of the weirder American holidays. How did it come to be? Here is the origin story of Punxsutawney Phil and his predictions.

Groundhog Day has been observed on Feb. 2. The longstanding tradition calls for groundhogs to tell us if spring is near.