I looked for the source - I couldn't find it.
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Edit: SkingradGuard found it.
The weather this winter has been so fucking weird even the most diehard climate change deniers are having thoughts. Graphs are graphs but when you're wearing a t shirt in Canadian February things are a bit hard to ignore.
That tracks. Plants in Colorado seem to think it's mid-April right now. Last year they acted like it was two months earlier than it was.
My weeping cherry which usually starts blossoming in early April is already doing so right now. I'm also starting to see new leaves budding on the trees.
It seems that some bursts of cold weather are in the forecast a week from now. I'm worried it's going to kill all this new growth and the trees will be bare or brown this summer.
I looked for the source - I couldn't find it.
Here it is idk why you couldn't find it, google has been unreliable lately I guess.
Google has really been sucking at research purposes for years. All it seems to give you is sponsored spam and AI-generated webpages.
A few months ago I tried to look up info on a long-closed hospital that my grandmother used to work at. No matter how many times I modified the search by putting the hospital's name in quotes, Google would keep returning nothing but links to other local hospitals and clinics, and pharma company websites. It used to be really easy to find obscure shit and personally curated sites, but it's gotten difficult to impossible to find anything now. Either those sites don't exist anymore or Google pretends they're not there.
Imagine having to go through and data entry all those dates manually from old record books or scrolls or whatever.
It's less than 2000 records. If they had them all in one place that's only like a few weeks of data entry at worst
If they had to go out and find multiple data points per year though...
Maybe, but something tells me they weren’t just recording cherry blossom dates. I just have a super hard time believing they didn’t record a bunch of stuff throughout the year, cherry blossom date being but one of them.
But maybe I’m wrong :)
Oh yeah, if they were entering data for tons of things each year and not just turning directly to the cherry blossom page that's a lot.
I live in Asheville and know tons of people who work at the NOAA offices here and that dataset alone is like 4 underground warehouses of weather data just from the past 200 years. Can't imagine something like that for 1200 years of records.
My job is also doing a lot of as built data entry for telecom networks though, so I'm used to hundreds of thousands of data points and that skewes my judgement.
Hot take: cherry blossom season in Japan is gorgeous, highly recommend
that's a cold take.
Hot take is my grandma's take that all trees are bad because they make a mess
Going to be in Japan the last week of March.
I'll post pictures.
How are the dates calculated from before the Gregorian calendar?
