Monks in Kyoto kept records of the peak day for cherry blossoms starting in 812 CE -- indirectly giving us over 1200 years of climate data.

It should surprise no one that this decade is having the earliest blossoms in that whole database.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/date-of-the-peak-cherry-tree-blossom-in-kyoto

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