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Warmer weather had left some wondering whether this year’s peak would happen earlier than usual or fizzle altogether. Last year, the cherry blossoms peaked around the beginning of April. NPS staff spent the last few weeks collecting data and running them through algorithms to make their prediction. The peak bloom dates vary year by year and depends on weather conditions. “We’ve had a mild winter and we haven’t had much snow, the trees really haven’t gone into a deep dormancy,” Brian Hall, spokesman for the NPS unit which oversees the National Mall and its monuments, told WTOP.
