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It'll be warmer for a few days

Monday, February 19, 2007

YOUNGSTOWN — Tuesday will mark a return to higher temperatures, but the National Weather Service isn’t ready to concur with Punxsutawney Phil.

The famed weather-predicting Pennsylvania groundhog saw no shadow when he emerged from his hole early Feb. 2, forecasting an early spring.

Was the little critter right?

“I’m not going to say that,” said Walter Fitzgerald, an NWS meteorologist in Cleveland. “He has his way of forecasting, and we have ours.”

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