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With cool weather persisting through March, the National Park Service has revised its prediction for this year’s Cherry Blossom peak bloom in Tidal Basin Washington D.C. to April 8 to 12.
The NPS said Friday while February was warmer than normal and got the buds off to an early start, it has been cool weather since then.
March has had 3.5° below average temperature.
“That has kept things moving at a glacial pace. And after crunching their weather forecast data looking ahead, both the NPS and (The Washington) Post have concluded that it’s just not going to be warm enough in the next couple of weeks to bring most of the trees to full bloom.”
According to NPS, the vast majority of trees are still in earlier bud stages while a few are ahead of time.
“So it’s likely to be a rather drawn out blooming process, with some trees blooming well ahead of others.
