"Congratulations on the blooming!"
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Japan announced the official start of Tokyo's cherry blossom season on Tuesday (March 14)
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It comes 10 days earlier than usual
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No. But the record early start has only been seen twice before.
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Tokyo's official cherry bloom records go back 70 years and the flowers have only appeared this early in 2021 and 2020
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Previously, the country's meteorologists have linked the increasingly early blooms to climate change
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"We've seen many warm days in March," said a Japan Meteorological Agency official