the thing is, we have looked back atjust how good phil — or however many reincarnations of phil there have been — how good he has been over the years at predicting the weather. and the answer is, not very. this is an annual fraud perpetrated on the american people. in 135 years he has been rightjust 40 per cent of the time — which is worse than a coin flip. you could literally flip a coin and get it right more times than him. and the thins it there are better pundits out there — animals that are at, the very top of their game. who remembers paul the octopus? he predicted the results in the 2008 euros and in 2010 world cup and he got it right 85% of the time. eight tentacles, nine brains — far far superior to a posh squirrel.