The most widely cultivated and popular” somei yoshino” cherry tree in Japan was in full bloom on Thursday, four days after the city’s average of four weeks.
The organization attributes this year’s late blooms to cold weather, but it has also raised the alarm that climate change is causing the delicate petals to appear sooner in the long run.
The combined earliest meeting on record for cherry blooming on March 14 and 2020 and 2021 was Mar 22 and Mar 22.
The common start date for peach blossoms to rose in Japan has been rising since 1953, the JMA reports, growing at a rate of 1.2 days per 10 times.
According to the company,” the long-term increase in temperature is thought to be a issue” as well as other factors like the urban heat island effect.
Since the removal of pandemic-era border restrictions, hospitality to Japan has been rising, and an international audience was also out enjoying the surroundings on Thursday.
Kamilla Kielbowska, a 35- year- ancient from New York, planned her next trip to Japan around the buds.
” We arrived around on, I believe, Mar 23. And I was joking… ‘ OK, we gotta go to this area straight from the airport, I never lose sakura”.
But “it was very warm, and no branches were blossoming. And I was a small depressed, but I’m hoping to see them all in bloom before I leave.
” It certainly lived up to expectations”, she said, calling the sight “marvellous” and “very magical”.
Katsuhiro Miyamoto, professor emeritus at Kansai University, estimates the economic impact of cherry blossom season in Japan, from travel to parties held under the flowers, at 1.1 trillion yen ( US$ 7.3 billion ) this year, up from 616 billion yen in 2023.