This Year’s Cherry Blossom Forecast
Yep, now that everyone’s hopes of an early spring have been crushed by the blooming plum trees getting their inevitable smothering in snow, it’s that time of year when the crystal ball gazers step in to predict the arrival of cherry blossom season.
This is serious business in Japan. All over the country, precious time off from work has already been booked for a few splendiferously pink days away, and the family is not going to be pleased if they’re paying mega-premium rates for hotels and train tix, just to see bare branches.
This year, it looks like it’ll be the conservative bettors who will be swanning around in a cloud of smug, at least in the Tokyo region. Barring any rogue polar vortexes, the buds are predicted to pop on the Monday AFTER the last weekend in March, and BEFORE the first weekend in April, thus disappointing those who were counting on global warming to deliver an early win.
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Writing mystery books set in Tokyo is mostly what I do, but I also blog about the odd stuff I see every day in Japan. I'm a graduate of Stanford University and the Sendagaya Japanese Institute in Tokyo, and a member of the International Thriller Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters In Crime. When I'm not in Tokyo, I live in San Francisco. I also host a travel site called The Tokyo Guide I Wish I'd Had, so if you're headed to Japan and want to check out the places I take my friends when they're in town, take a look!
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vortexes = vortices? 🙂
Ahahaha, righteous SNAG! And I’m sure you’ll be sorry to hear that you just qualified for a run-for-the-Last-Train visit to a Tokyo izakaya, at which we will air all our pet nitpicqing peeves! ^_^ (Mine may rival yours, so Be Prepared. heh!) Thanks for the correction, and I hope you will continue to slap me upside the head when I err!
I’m Aussie, so to me a ‘snag’ is a sausage… 😉
Sorry, I do love your blog! I come here most days to get a little cheer into my day. I just have a terrible habit of not being able to ignore some spelling and grammatical things- you could say that habit in itself is a pet peeve of mine.
I must see if the local library has some of your books available for borrowing… 🙂
(Filing away that snag = sausage in Aussie-speak, for future diabolical use…)!