{"id":548,"date":"2016-01-27T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/?p=548"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T07:02:18","slug":"cherry-blossom-forecast-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Blossom Forecast Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for IsoEcol 2016 delegates &#8211; the\u00a0weather service <a href=\"http:\/\/sakura.weathermap.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weathermap<\/a>\u00a0published its first cherry blossom forecast for 2016 on January 22. Despite a very warm winter so far and long-term forecasts predicting a warm February and March, Weathermap expects the season to follow a relatively average pace this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Best viewing in Tokyo: April 2-10, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Timing will be ideal to catch the peak blooms in Tokyo during and after the conference. Delegates heading to other areas before or after the conference can check the predicted blooms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japan-guide.com\/sakura\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_553\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-553\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-553 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sakura-ueno-park-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"sakura ueno park\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sakura-ueno-park-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sakura-ueno-park-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sakura-ueno-park-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/sakura-ueno-park.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherry Blossoms in Ueno Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More details on hanami (\u82b1\u898b = cherry blossom party) spots in Tokyo can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japan-guide.com\/e\/e3050.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Ueno Park, a short walk from the conference venue, is one of Japan&#8217;s most crowded, noisy and popular spots for cherry blossom parties. \u00a0It\u00a0features more than 1000 trees along the street leading towards the National Museum and around Shinobazu Pond and has a nighttime illumination. Ueno Park&#8217;s blossoms typically open 1-3 days ahead of the blossoms in other spots in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for IsoEcol 2016 delegates &#8211; the\u00a0weather service Weathermap\u00a0published its first cherry blossom forecast for 2016 on January 22. Despite a very warm winter so far and long-term forecasts <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/?p=548\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,17,4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isoecol.com\/2016\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}