Much as I like the artistic graph showing the Japanese cherry blossom times recorded since the year 812 that I posted last year, this graph is clearer as a representation of the data:
I've added a few more year calibrations at the right end to make it extra clear that the trend line was moving within a set 10-day range up until 1950. Though it had started its downward trend around 1900, that still fit within the normal trend. But 1950 is the approximate year when it began to dive below any point that had existed at least since 812.
Since 1950 it has continued on just as steep a line downward, after a few years of flattening out. The actual bloom dates sometimes reach well into March, with the trend line, of course, lagging. Given the recent bloom dates on the chart, the trend line will continue to fall unless there is quite a run of much later bloom dates soon.
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