Winter or spring? Punxsutawney Phil takes over the internet on Groundhog Day

Good news: Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow, meaning we're (supposedly) getting an early spring. For this New Yorker wholly fed up pinch acold and dreary weather, that's a invited sign.

When you really break down this contented — man-handling an oversized rodent to glean info astir early upwind — it is genuinely deranged. It's an (admittedly silly) modern type of reference nan entrails to wished nan gods' will. It's weird. Sit and deliberation astir it for a minute. It's really freaking weird!

For immoderate reason, nan net really latched onto that truth this year. There were truthful galore memes and jokes astir Phil and his different divine groundhog brethren. Here are immoderate of nan best.

See this personification gets it.

Apparently Phil isn't moreover very good.

Or possibly he is?

OK but why does Phil benignant of look for illustration Guy Fieri?

This would beryllium only somewhat much weird.

They simply cannot defender him.

It would beryllium scary if Phil did grasp nan weight of his duty.

It's simply nan worst time of nan twelvemonth for Phil.

And finally, this.