Kicking off 2014 on Beacon Hill, the Massachusetts legislature on Wednesday will consider designating Ms. G, a local groundhog from Lincoln, Mass., as the official groundhog of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And as Groundhog Day on February 2 is right around the corner, the State House ought to make haste or else there won’t be a furry little creature available to determine whether we’re stuck in the polar vortex for a subsequent six weeks.

The measure (Bill H.2864) sponsored by state Representative Alice Hanlon Peisch (D-Wellesley) will go before the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight to make Ms. G, who resides at the Massachusetts Audubon’s Drumlin Farm, not just a traditional spectacle for playfully concluding for the forthcoming weather, but also to “be utilized as a mechanism to educate elementary school children on the importance of meteorology.”

A free-to-all public hearing is slated for Wednesday at Wellesley Public Library at which time young students and other Ms. G proponents will be allowed to deliver testimony in front of the Committee on the groundhog’s behalf.

And Ms. G is, in fact, no slouch when it comes to the annual guessing game. She’s been forecasting the weather since 2008, even better so than rival Punxsutawney Phil – the overhyped, oversold wanna-be badass from Nowheresville, Pennsylvania. According to the website dedicated to making Ms. G the new Ms. Thing,  “Ms. G has had better local forecast accuracy with her ‘shadow/no shadow’ forecast than Punxsutawney Phil way down in PA.”

Here’s a quick glance at how Ms. G has fared with her predictions over the past few years:

Should Ms. G’s bid be reported out favorably by the Committee – and come on, why wouldn’t it? – the legislation will be debated in the Massachusetts Senate and Massachusetts House of Representatives before making its way to Governor Deval Patrick’s desk to be signed into law and become the official groundhog of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

You go, Ms. G.