Write us when that happens… in 2080!
The Washington Post reports:
Washington’s cherry blossoms are busting out early this year, with buds popping so fast that a government work crew this week watched them unfurl on one tree in a single day.
The U.S. National Park Service had predicted an early bloom for the centennial year of the hallowed trees. But it has moved up the forecast twice, with temperatures in the 80s and more of the same expected.
Now comes a team of scientists theorizing that with drastic warming of the globe, future decades could see blossom times not just a few days early but advanced by almost a month.
That could mean a bloom process that begins in January, rather than February, a blooming period in February instead of March, and a peak bloom in early March, instead of early April, the research suggests…
According to the more dire global warming scenario the scientists used — one with unchecked global population growth — the District’s cherry trees could be blooming 29 days earlier by 2080 and 13 days earlier by 2050…
Ornamental cherry blossoms are out here too. How bad is that? Let’s all take a good look before they’re frostbitten.
That is what you get when you move Daylight Savings ahead several weeks.
How nice – the cherry blossom will be out for President’s Day. Sounds like a win to me.
“… a government work crew this week watched them unfurl on one tree in a single day”
Your tax dollars at work…