Punxsutawney Phil, America’s most famous rodent prognosticator, saw his shadow Tuesday, signaling six more weeks of winter.

Phil emerged from his ceremonial tree stump at Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania, to a cheering crowd that had waited in the cold for his annual prediction.

It is the 99th time that Phil — in his various incarnations — has seen his shadow, according to groundhog.org, the official Web site of the groundhog club in Punxsutawney, about 75 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, in western Pennsylvania.

Not seeing a shadow — something that has happened just 15 times in Phil’s history, according to the club — would have meant spring is around the corner.

Phil’s predictions don’t mean much to human weather predictors, however. The tradition came to America with the early German settlers who arrived in Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin’s Jimmy the Groundhog didn’t see his shadow, so spring will come early in that region of the country.