Warmer Weather Causes Cherry Blossom Peak Bloom Dates to Move Up in Washington

If you made travel plans to go to Washington, D.C., for the cherry blossoms this year, we hope you bought travel insurance.

FOX’s Gary Baumgarten reports:

The National Park Service had projected the peak bloom to be from March 31 through April 3. But now, thanks to unseasonably warm weather, the Park Service is revising those dates:

(Litterst) “The high temperatures, the potential record setting temperatures later this week, have actually forced us to revise the projected peak bloom date. Now we’re looking at them being out on March 18.” 

That’s Parks Service spokesman Mike Litterst, who says they’ll continue at peak through March 23. He says normally the blossoms peak on April 5.

Gary Baumgarten, FOX News.