A 1,200-year record of cherry blossoms shows our current climate is historically unprecedented.
—draw crowds from across the world. But since 1850, the delicate buds that adorn Kyoto's cherry trees bloom, on average, nearly two weeks earlier than they used to.First, the green bud appears, sprouting from a tree branch like a fledgling peering skyward from its mother’s nest.
On March 17, the signature cherry trees in the nation’s capitol saw their second-earliest peak bloom on record—emerging almost a week before they were expected to, tying with the year 2000,, or the point at which nearly two-thirds of a tree’s blossoms open, typically lasts at least a week, but varies depending on weather conditions and species. Sometime between thehas historically been when the Yoshino Cherry, the type of tree found throughout D.C.
And unlike in D.C., research on earlier blooms in Kyoto “has been both detected and attributed to human-caused climate change,” said Gonzalez.Under a medium-emissions scenario, the research estimates that Kyoto’s cherry blossoms' earlier arrival would push forward by almost another week by 2100. To some, this pattern should be viewed with a sense of alarm.
shows that the average spring temperature in D.C. has increased 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit from 1970 to 2023. In 2017, a late frost killed
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