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I looked for the source - I couldn't find it.

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Edit: SkingradGuard found it.

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe, but something tells me they weren’t just recording cherry blossom dates. I just have a super hard time believing they didn’t record a bunch of stuff throughout the year, cherry blossom date being but one of them.

But maybe I’m wrong :)

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah, if they were entering data for tons of things each year and not just turning directly to the cherry blossom page that's a lot.

I live in Asheville and know tons of people who work at the NOAA offices here and that dataset alone is like 4 underground warehouses of weather data just from the past 200 years. Can't imagine something like that for 1200 years of records.

My job is also doing a lot of as built data entry for telecom networks though, so I'm used to hundreds of thousands of data points and that skewes my judgement.