CNN article "Japan just recorded its earliest cherry blossom bloom in 1,200 years."
Cherry blossoms, which experience a "peak bloom" that only lasts a few days, have been revered in Japan for more than a thousand years. Crowds celebrate with viewing parties, flocking to the most popular locations to take photos and have picnics underneath the branches.
Yasuyuki Aono, a researcher at Osaka Prefecture University, has gathered records from Kyoto back to 812 AD from historical documents and diaries. In the central city of Kyoto, cherry blossoms peaked on March 26, the earliest in more than 1,200 years, Aono said.
The CNN article focuses on how the trend reflects climate change and talks about how this change affects not just the cherry trees (and the bloom viewers!) but also insects that rely on the bloom. It's important stuff.... but I can't get past... there are 1200 years of records about this!
Cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan, are blooming about 10 days earlier than they did 100 years ago, according to research in the International Journal of Biometeorology. The earlier bloom coincides with rising temperatures, suggesting climate change is affecting the length of growing seasons. The grey dots represent the date of peak blooms from the year 900 through 2015. The red line shows the 10-year moving average.
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