In Japan, cherry trees are a national treasure. No other country is more closely associated with the trees of the Rosaceae family circle than the Land of the Rising Sun; And no other country studies its flowers so much. With global warming, the average full bloom date of sakura trees has increased by 1. 2 days per decade in the Japanese archipelago since the 1950s, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (WAN).
2023 has so far been a “record-breaking” year in terms of earliness, as knowledge shows its full bloom on March 26 in Kyoto (Kansai region). Although we still don’t know the exact date of this peak for the current year, it turns out to be conducive to an even earlier bloom: the AMJ predicts it for March 24 on its website Tenki. jp, committed to predicting the bloom of the archipelago’s most prominent tree.