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Flower blooms earlier every year
Tulips are in bloom at a garden in Everland, Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Sunday. Today flowers bloom about 15 days earlier than 30 years ago due to warmer temperatures, according to the weather agency. / Yonhap
By Jhoo Dong-chan
By Jhoo Dong-chan
Spring flowers are blooming about 15 days earlier than three decades ago, largely due to global warming, the weather agency said Sunday.
According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Japanese apricot flowers used to bloom in Seoul on April 20 on average in 1980s, while they bloomed on March 28 in 1990s and on March 26 in 2000s.
From 2011 to 2014, they bloomed on April 5, which was later than the previous two decades’ averages, but it was still 15 days earlier than the 1980s.
The date of cherry blossoms blooming has also advanced from April 12 in the 1980s to April 10 in 1990s, April 7 in the 2000s and April 10 in the 2010s.
This phenomenon was the same across the country.
The KMA attributes the change to rising temperatures caused by global warming.
The average temperature of the nation’s 10 major cities in February has increased from 1.2 degree Celsius in the 1980s to 3 degrees in the 2000s. Likewise, the temperature in March increased from 6.2 degrees to 7.2 degrees during the same period.
“Due to the temperature warming, the cherry blossoms flowered in March last year in Seoul, which was the earliest in meteorological records,” a KMA official said.
This year, cherry blossoms in Seoul are expected to bloom on April 9.