Peak bloom is probable between Wednesday and Friday.
Cherry blossoms are bursting around the Tidal Basin, but peak bloom appears to be a day or two away. Most trees are showing various stages of bloom, from florets to full blossoms. Few trees are at full bloom.The inconsistency of the bloom this year is more pronounced than past years and is probably because of the recent cold snap. A few blossoms are showing brown tips, which may be damage from the freezing temperatures that occurred Sunday and Monday mornings.
Timelapse video of the Washington, D.C., cherry blossoms shows the trees bloom between March 3 and March 19. “You can see the withered petals and mass drooped peduncles in the latest time lapse,” he wrote in an email.blossom buds reached their final stage before peak bloom — known as puffy white — on Saturday“[M]any of the trees are just going SLOW,” Leslie Frattaroli, a natural resources program manager at the National Park Service, wrote in an email. Frattaroli also noted the buds are at different stages from tree to tree.
Despite their slow progress, various stages of development and some damage from the recent freeze, the blossoms were beautiful Tuesday morning and glowed pink with the light of the rising sun.The weather was calm and clear at sunrise, but a very chilly 37 degrees. I arrived at the Tidal Basin at 6 a.m. and walked most of the western bank of the basin looking for trees loaded with blossoms but had few choices.
Dozens of photographers soon appeared and crowded around me and the few trees that displayed blossoms. The tree I chose probably had about a dozen photographers at various times, shifting tripods and positioning for shots. When peak bloom occurs later this week, there will be many more trees with blossoms to give photographers more options., the upcoming weekend should offer generally good conditions for blossom viewing.
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