After missing last year’s event due to illness, Ms. G, Massachusetts’ official state groundhog, is back and ready to make her prediction on Feb. 2. For the 17th year, she will emerge to determine whether the state will face six more weeks of winter or have an early spring.

On Feb. 2, Ms. G saw her shadow, predicting over a month of additional snow and ice in 2025. The groundhog’s enthusiasm for prognostication was evident Sunday as she ran energetically around an outdoor enclosure at her home at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln.