デイヴMar 30, 2023

A striking visualisation of #climatechange: the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.

Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.

The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…

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@deivudesu I live near Branch Brook Park Newark NJ which has the largest collection of cherry blossom trees in the US. The young trees were blooming in February as we did not really have a winter here this year. The older trees, I notice, do wait until about April to bloom.
Mar 30, 2023 at 7:38pmWeb