Cherry Blossoms Bloom In Brooklyn

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<p>I saw blooming trees in my neighborhood this weekend. Had to use an umbrella when visiting the tree in Rockefeller Center on Christmas, too. I want winter!</p>

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<p>Please be careful what you wish for, take a look at Colorado! Enjoy the lower gas/oil bill, no shoveling and no ice melt pellets in the house. Also, take a look:
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<p>Snow for sale!</p>

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<p>1877 the year when Krakatoa imploded, affected the world climate’s climate. World famine resulted in the following years. </p>

<p>I think we should attribute the blooming of the cherry trees as the warming effect of W’s breaking wind.</p>

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<p>PS. A moderate cold spell will mean the death of your cherry trees.</p>

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<p>I’m worried about that. (The treees won’t die, right? Just fail to bloom in the Spring?) Our nearby county park is about 350 acres & boasts over 2000 cherry blossom trees. We have a big festival in April & it would be a shame if the weather ruined all that.</p>

<p>Anyway, it feels verey disconcerting to have 50 degree temps in January. But the folks in Colorado aren’t too happy, either.</p>

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<p>I have a weeping cherry tree named Ashley. I will be devastated if she doesn’t bloom this spring. I’d better get outside and check her – thanks for pointing this out.</p>

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<p>I’m in Toronto and am worried about my magnolia trees which are in full bud. Our weather (although I’m not complaining) has been setting records for about a year now. Toronto usually gets about 45 inches of snow a year. In all of 2006, we received about 12 inches. The temperature has been hovering around 50 degrees for the past two weeks and is still there. I’ve worn nothing warmer than my denim jacket so far this ‘winter’. I know that eventually it will arrive but I’m thankful that, so far, more than two months of winter have been springlike.</p>

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<p>I have loved our warm “winter” in Boston this year too.</p>

<p>I just don’t love what it means about climate change. If I really wanted 50 degree days all winter, I’d be living somewhere else. This is unnatural (and yes, I saw lily greens poking through the ground yesterday…crazy!)</p>

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<p>I have mixed feelings about the warm weather. On the one hand, I hate to be cold and my husband works long hours when it snows and I have to make sure my daughters can get to their adopted seniors to do the shoveling, but on the other hand my husband works long hours and makes a huge amount of money when it snows. I’m such a Libra. Someone decide which is better for me.</p>

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<p>Yikes, my dog is shedding prematurely! This doesn’t usually happen until early spring.</p>

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<p>My daffodils are starting to come up. I hate cold too but this is just weird.</p>

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<p>When you start seeing the whites of the petals, then you start being worried. Out here in the western coastal state, we are normally in the mid 40’s-mid 50’s all winter long with occasional frost days. The trees stay pretty much dormant until March. There are precousious ornamental plums and a few prunes, that often show a few blooms this time of year and then hit a spectacular bloom in March. </p>

<p>Trees need a certain number of hours below a certain temperature to initiate bloom. Doubtful that you have surpassed that mark yet. A warm winter in Oregon normally means a late bloom.</p>

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<p>This article brings back some memories. John Bolaris used to be “our” weatherman before he moved up to NY. He was run out of town on a rail after he predicted the snow storm of the century, and the TV station he worked for promoted the “impending disaster” for days, supposedly to boost their ratings. It panicked the entire region during Christmas- New Year week and we are not an area to panic over a major snow storm.</p>

<p>I remember we were out of town on vacation, and actually cut our trip short to come <em>back</em> because of it (we were worried about the house and the dog). When it amounted to nothing (as other forecasters had predicted) the backlash was unbelievable. I felt bad for him at the time as I think it was an honest mistake.</p>

<p>As far as the main idea of the article - I hadn’t even noticed, but I just went outside to check and it’s true. A couple of my bushes and trees do indeed have budding flowers. The lawn is still all green, too.</p>

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<p>It’s warm in VT too. I’m enjoying it, but it could ruin our ski industry, maple syrup crop and who knows what else. Usually it’s below zero with deep snow by this time. Though I do remember one “January thaw” about 10 years ago when the daffodils appeared (just the greens, not the flowers and they did flower in the spring).</p>

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<p>Wacky weather. Our grass is green, unlike any previous Winter. There was a rain storm in Williamsburg on the first that felt like April rain and the 70-plus degrees was fine by me.</p>

<p>Cheers, beers and Happy New Years!!!</p>