Aru Nair
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Different plants have different sized buckets to fill.
Cherry trees have smaller buckets, which is why they come out so early in the spring.
But it is a little bit more complicated than that, even for cherry blossoms.
the period of cold that the plants need before they get ready to bloom.
It's called winter chilling.
And scientists have observed this for a while.
You might have observed it too.
They need both parts.
And just to be clear, Emily, this winter chilling bucket is something that scientists are still studying.
They know the plants need the cold weather to bloom on time, but they're still not quite sure exactly how it works.
And Elizabeth told me there's also the factor of longer days.
Yeah, so basically this up and down weather pattern can totally shake up their predictions.
And there's a big range of possibilities.