Peak bloom occurs when 70% of the area’s Yoshino cherry blossoms are open, with the “puffy white blossoms … creating a cloud-like effect” among the roughly 3,750 trees that line the basin, according to the park service website.
officials estimated Wednesday that the District’s cherry blossoms will reach their peak bloom in the Tidal Basin between March 22 and 25, the same period they predicted last year.’s superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Park, added that horticulturalists will “monitor weather conditions” to see if unpredictable temperature patterns change things.
If temperatures drop below freezing for extended periods this month, water will freeze inside the buds and cause them to fall off, officials say. The budding trees would then turn brown and bloom again later than expected. After last week’s “wide variation” in weather between 80-degree temperatures and snow, Mr. Reinbold said Wednesday that the first indicator tree “is showing us several different phases of blossoms.”As meteorologists warn that recent changes to the polar vortex may bring freezing temperatures to the East Coast this month, park officials are now looking more at weather predictions than the indicator trees to track peak bloom.
A cold weather snap this month could diminish crowds at this year’s National Cherry Blossom Festival, a major source of tourist revenue for the area that’s scheduled to run from March 20 to April 16.
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