Groundhog Day at the Yellow River Game Ranch in Metro Atlanta with General Beauregard Lee, PhD

On Groundhog Day at The Yellow River Game Ranch in metro Atlanta, General Beauregard Lee, PhD, will make his annual weather forecast. It will be a huge celebration with hundreds of onlookers in attendance along with TV reporters and their camera crews.

General Beauregard Lee, PhD is a groundhog. If he sees his shadow when the sun rises on Groundhog Day at The Yellow River Game Ranch in metro Atlanta, there will be six more weeks of winter-like weather. If General Beauregard Lee, PhD does not see his shadow, warmer spring-like temperatures will prevail.

Ever since the 1800's, groundhogs all over the U.S. have been looking for their shadow on Groundhog Day.

But General Beauregard Lee, PhD is no ordinary groundhog. He is the most well-known, celebrated groundhog in the southeast. General Beauregard Lee, PhD, who lives year round in his groundhog mansion at the Yellow River Game Ranch in metro Atlanta, is known as Georgia's Official Weather Prognosticator and Georgia's Cumulous Barometrist Groundhogolist.

The weather forecasts of General Beauregard Lee, PhD have been 94% correct in the past and he has been applauded by The National Weather Service many times for his accurate predictions.

General Beauregard Lee, PhD has received an honorary doctorate, a DWP, Doctor of Weather Prognostication, from the University of Georgia. He also has another honorary doctorate, a DSG, Doctor of Southern Groundology, from Georgia State University.

General Beauregard Lee, PhD, a celebrity among groundhogs, was featured on "The Today Show" with weather correspondent Willard Scott in 1988. He has also appeared on Animal Planet, as well as many metro Atlanta television shows. General Beauregard Lee, PhD responds to all his abundance of fan mail with an autographed photo of himself.

The home of General Beauregard Lee, PhD, The Yellow River Game Ranch in metro Atlanta, is Georgia's oldest animal preserve. In addition to General Beauregard Lee, PhD, the preserve is the home to over six hundred animals and birds. The Yellow River Game Ranch is open to the public seven days a week from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm. It is closed on most holidays, except, of course, Groundhog Day. The Yellow River Game Ranch in metro Atlanta is located at 4525 Highway 78, Lilburn, Georgia.

As always, General Beauregard Lee, PhD is looking forward to the big celebration on Groundhog Day at The Yellow River Game Ranch in metro Atlanta.

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