It turns out that global cooling, at least the deep freeze in Washington, is wrecking the debut Washington’s sacred cherry blossoms.
A video roundup of weekly events featured by the U.S. Interior Department blames the cold weather for upsetting the trees and pushing the blooms back a week.
Interior said that peak bloom will come April 11-14, “about a week later than average thanks to a long cold winter.”
The impact will be felt in Washington which has scheduled the Cherry Blossom Festival for March 20-April 12.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
