Like just about everyone else in the region, Montgomery County Police officers want to catch Punxsutawney Phil and wring his little groundhog neck.

Potomac Phil may have been a stuffed groundhog, but PETA doesn’t think that the annual Groundhog Day celebration is anything to take lightly.

On the same day that something happened in a small town in Pennsylvania, Potomac Phil emerged from his mid-winter slumber for long enough to tell anxious D.C. residents what they didn’t want to hear — we’ve got six more weeks of winter coming.

So says Punxsutawney Phil, who is looking pretty freaked out about being hoisted over his handler’s head earlier this morning. Aside from breaking the bad weather news, Phil was apparently pretty happy with the Steelers’ victory over the Arizona Cardinals last night. Or else he just wanted to be left alone and burrow back into his hole without being blamed, once again, for the continuation of a long, cold winter….

Well, it looks like Punxsutawney Phil was right, at least for D.C. February, a mostly mild month for the area, is going out like a lion. Last week’s moderate snowfall foreshadowed the “weather event” coming toward us tonight. Jason Samenow of Capital Weather is predicting that we’ll be hit with 6-10 inches of snow beginning tonight and going well into Monday. Weather Underground agrees, as does The Weather Channel. These late-season snowstorms, though surprising,…