This is the first year on record when cherry blossom florets were not active in Washington DC during March.
Bloom Watch | National Cherry Blossom Festival
Three years ago, scientists predicted cherry blossom florets in January.
Could cherry blossoms one day be blooming in winter? – The Washington Post
Every day is April Fools Day in government funded climate science.
https://piedmontgardener.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/img_5685-1-peggy-clark-jr-in-snow-close-up.jpg
The Washington Poste: Think spring: Cherry blossoms expected to hit peak bloom April 11-14
Expected to hit peak bloom April 11-14 of which year?
This year. Unless it falls into a Gore-Maslowski Groundhog Day loop.
Hover over link and it gives the date of the Post
earticle — 2015/03/02Was just working on putting this data on a graph.
This is an ACTUAL proxy for “global warming,” unlike tree rings.
There is more data available, also.
http://www.nps.gov/cherry/upload/Cherry-Festival-dates.pdf
The “Yoshino bloom” column in the link above, going back to 1921, is the same data as the “Peak Bloom” column in your data above.
Graphing the peak bloom data, from 1921 to 2015 should show, since the globe is experiencing runaway heating, a constant rise.
http://people.bu.edu/primack/primack_higuchi_cherries.pdf
But there must be a place on Earth where they blossomed earlier than normal.
Well, I wrote this sophisticated, complex, state-of-the-art model… but I need a couple of million dollars to buy the supercomputers that I need to run it. Remember, models are more accurate than real life and have the advantage of “fixing” those historic measurements. If the check clears today I’ll have those blossoms blooming on March 2nd… sometime towards the end of the summer depending on how hard my proprietary algore-ythm is to “debug” and when a spot opens up in the “peer review” and publish cycle.
Proxy data is available globally:
Japan:
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2011_when.html
http://sakura.weathermap.jp/
China:
http://www.china.org.cn/video/2015-03/25/content_35147249.htm
Korea:
http://blog.korea.net/?p=15389
Canada:
http://www.highparktoronto.com/cherry-trees.php
South Africa:
http://reviewonline.co.za/41651/haenertsburg-celebrates-their-30th-spring-festival/
Spain:
http://www.balboapark.org/blogs/balboa-park-beat/cherry-blossoms-are-blooming-its-time-celebrate#.VRxIgOHLm8A
Should be enough there to create a hockey stick!
I linked this article above too:http://people.bu.edu/primack/primack_higuchi_cherries.pdf
Bleak,
Great article, thanks.
“Even the cherry trees in Washington, DC, donated by the
Japanese government, are responding to higher
urban temperatures by flowering one week
earlier than in the past, providing an example of
the biological impacts of climate change right
on the doorstep of the American government.”
Nothing like ignoring real data to create fake evidence of alarmist warming.
This guy’s data for DC must have come from a model! Cuz the real data shows nothing of the kind.
That is awesome. Thanks.
How about Vancouver, BC, Canada? The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival was scheduled to run from April 2 to 29, 2015 (it is usually in April). But in many, if not mostm areas the blossom started in February and are now all gone. It will not be much of a festival
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Early+bloom+some+Metro+Vancouver+cherry+blossoms/10805399/story.html
Loopy jets.
The weak/loopy Jets are indicative of cold/glacial type climate. Shocking Polar Vortex From 20,000 Years Ago
https://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/screenhunter_256-jan-22-16-42.gif
https://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/screenhunter_257-jan-22-17-17.gif
An explanation by Dr. Tim Ball (one of the few actual Climatologists) It’s The Circumpolar Vortex Not The Polar Vortex And Other PR Deceptions
At the end Dr. Ball says:
Unfortunately the cooling of the earth produces Meridional flow with extremes in temperature, blocking highs causing holding patterns like the Russian heat wave a few years back, drought, floods and other extreme weather events. The ClimAstrologists know this and that is why Global Warming morphed into ‘Climate Change’ and ‘Climate Disruption.’
Which government work crews are responsible for spending entire days observing the blossoming of cherry trees, and how to do I get in on that?
The Cherry Blossom Temperature Proxy Interdisciplinary Working Group at the Collection Strategies Division of the Office of Information Collection (OIC) of the Office of Environmental Information (OEI) of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/about-office-environmental-information-oei
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange
USEPA, OEI, OIC, CDS, CBTPIWG also has the distinction of being one of the first departments of the federal government forced to issue two page business cards to its employees, who, depending on their titles, may opt for 3 page cards if type larger than 2 points is desired.
What a tragedy. Maybe a drum circle would help…quick, someone go to Indianapolis and round up the perpetual victims and bring them to DC to stop this madness!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUDEmMjC-c
Sure. These folk would rather worship the creation than worship the creator. It would not surprise me at all if they cared more about trees than they did human life.
Obummers Science Czar, John Holdren argued that trees have legal rights and should be allowed the standing to sue in a court of law.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/70s-obamas-science-adviser-endorsed-giving-trees-legal-standing-sue-court
These people are seriously warped. The lunatics really are running the asylum!
Hmmm…Interesting.
OK. Who gets to represent the trees? Would this mean that trees would have the right to sufficient CO2 in the air to assure their optimum growth?? 🙂
“OK. Who gets to represent the trees? ”
Perhaps Greenpeace, or the Sierra Club. Or the World Wildlife Fund (note: “Fund”). Among the others, I believe Donna La Framboise discovered that NGO was the single-largest group of non-scientists to help write the UN IPCC Climate Assessment Report. World’s best and brightest scientists my arse.
The spawn of those people…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWfGKt0aZLI
The cherry trees’ blossom development is dependent on weather conditions, which are inherently variable.
Peak Bloom for 2015 is predicted to be April 11-14.
Check this page for updates and follow along on Twitter and Facebook using #CherryBlossoms and #Bloomwatch.
When do the trees typically bloom?
2014 peak bloom occurred on April10, 2014
2013 peak bloom occurred on April 9, 2013
2012 peak bloom occurred on March 20, 2012.
The average peak bloom date from 1992 through 2013 is March 31.
http://www.nps.gov/cherry/cherry-blossom-bloom.htm
There is very little chance the blossoms will be in peak bloom on April 14
Our trees are just blooming this past week. Given I am 300+ miles south and in a different plant hardiness zone, I have to agree that April 14th is wishful thinking.
We did not get above freezing temperatures consistently until the 8th of March. However the DC temperatures parallel those of my area (above freezing starting on the 8th) except one is Dulles Airport and one is rural. If I look at Silver Springs MD instead I get temps hovering around freezing and dipping as low as 26 °F recently.
Seems those Washington DC Cherry trees put the lie to the ‘Official DC’ temperature record!
Considering the amount of UHI that has accumulated at the nations capital during the past 100 years, the fact that the cherry blossoms are not in bloom earlier each year is a big surprise. You would think blossoms in the nations capital, or in any large city, would be a proxy for UHI buildup and not CAGW, as UHI has the bigger influence on localized temperature.
in maine and trees here not even showing green under bark let alone budding yet.
ran around 33 to 35 deg F high today. low was approx 18 deg F.
Hotair just did a post on Neil degrass Tyson. My comment:
Tyson is a huge leftist global warming shill.
He says everyone else is denying the “obvious” global warming. “Obvious” like, by now, the DC cherry blossoms were supposed to be blooming in February because of global warming. But today is the first April 1 on record when cherry blossoms florets were not active in Washington DC. And it’s NOT an April Fools joke. Obvious like by now we were supposed to be nearly boiling. Instead, we’ve 18 years of stagnant temperatures despite their laughable climate models saying that the temps should have been skyrocketing all this time. We got record Antarctic ice. Record growth of the Arctic ice. Record Great Lakes ice!
Here’s a post on the DC cherry blossoms:
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/latest-cherry-blossoms-on-record-in-washington-dc/
Oh, and by now, much of country was supposed to be underwater from the sea rise. But for decades now there has been practically now change in sea level:
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/no-change-in-california-sea-level-since-1871/
No change, but these were the dire predictions of the doomsaying warmist Chicken Littles:
“Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of eco-refugees, threatening political chaos.” -Noel Brown, ex UNEP Director, 1989
“[in twenty years (2008)] the West Side Highway [and thus much of Manhattan] will be under water.” -James Hansen, 1988, NASA http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/22/a-little-known-but-failed-20-year-old-climate-change-prediction-by-dr-james-hansen/
I also left this comment at hotair, where it’s Biden Day:
A couple of supportive links for my comment above on Tyson & global warming:
On the TOTAL failure of the fear mongers’ bs climate models: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/still-epic-fail-73-climate-models-vs-measurements-running-5-year-means/
On ZERO warming for 18 years despite the continued rise in CO2: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/02/its-official-no-global-warming-for-18-years-1-month/
On Obama’s INSANE plan to cut US CO2 emissions by 28% in a decade by Executive Order, while letting or potential enemy China et al dramatically increase their CO2 output: https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/obama-seeking-to-wreck-the-economy-and-the-constitution-via-executive-order/
Good work Eric. What kind of responses did you get?
Thanks David!
I usually, or at least often, do get replies at hotair, but not this time. The post topic focused on Neil degrasse Tyson’s recent comments on the religious freedom law, so my point was slightly off the main point of the topic. This is the post: http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/01/neil-degrasse-tyson-insults-your-intelligence-again/
We also had ice in the Potomac River on March 16th this year, also by far the latest in recorded history. The DC area also had a hard freeze over this past weekend, with approximately 12 hours of subfreezing temperatures. That should set them back a week or two.
That’s what you get after a century of runaway out of control hockey stick style warming. NOT!
I think you are correct. It took about 3 weeks of decent above freezing temps to get our wild cherry trees to bloom. (They are in full bloom right now and just leafing out.)
I was surprised to go by a reservoir this afternoon and still see it completely iced over, being in western Connecticut. At least the snow drops and crocuses finally popped out last week, and this week daffodils are starting. My grandparent’s cherry tree still has a pile of snow underneath it.
I’m not surprised, considering the data show that area is cooling.
Evidences
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Anthony, I also live in NE CT. i went by a local reservoir early evening (April 1) and it was still completely frozen over with very apparent thick ice. While the river in our backyard has broken free, we still have glacial type ice sheets piled up throughout the woods and on the banks of the stream. I still have snow on my roof, although with today’s 50+F temps most of it has now melted. I think if the powers that be find a way to cool things off we will really be in trouble.
Still picking cherries? 😉
More like snow balls.
(You can toss them at Chris the Wind Barron. )
Here is a nice big snow ball:
In other words they are (cue music) GHOST BUSTERS!
We had a subscription for years and viewed it as a highbrow version of the National Enquirer.
Yep! Lefties always project, it is a tell.
It is also a great tell if you have a thief among your acquaintances. The guy who points a finger at someone else is the actual thief.
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