{"id":29596,"date":"2026-01-11T22:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29596"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:38:52","slug":"hundreds-of-flowering-species-bloomed-across-britain-and-ireland-last-winter-thats-not-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/01\/hundreds-of-flowering-species-bloomed-across-britain-and-ireland-last-winter-thats-not-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Flowering Species Bloomed Across Britain and Ireland Last Winter. That\u2019s Not a Good Thing."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my neighborhood, I have noticed some early daffodils blooming far earlier than we usually expect due to some unusually warm conditions in the last few weeks. Even though colder weather has returned to the region, we can expect more ups and downs in the temperature as the weak La Nina vanishes and is replaced by neutral conditions through early summer. Here is an interesting story<\/a> from Smithsonian Magazine<\/em> about observations of early-blooming spring flowers last year in the British Islands and how it relates to rising temperatures as the earth warms up under global warming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in phenological changes in dates of bloom of flowers and shrubs, the spring appearance of birds and butterflies, and the leafing out of trees here in the United States, you can follow the movement north of spring at the US National Phenological Network at https:\/\/usanpn.org\/<\/a>. This year they have also introduced a new index called the Late Bloom Index that keeps track of when a species stops flowering, denoting an end to spring conditions. You can read more about this at https:\/\/usanpn.org\/news\/article\/introducing-late-bloom-index<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my neighborhood, I have noticed some early daffodils blooming far earlier than we usually expect due to some unusually warm conditions in the last few weeks. Even though colder weather has returned to the region, we can expect more ups and downs in the temperature as the weak La Nina vanishes and is replaced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29598,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596\/revisions\/29598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}