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A cherry blossom is a flower of numerous trees of genus Prunus. They are also known as sakura. They usually refer to decorative, not edible cherry trees. Wild species of the cherry tree are generally spread in the northern hemisphere. In Japan, cherries are grown for ornamental purposes, and it is recognized the national flower of Japan. Every year the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the public track the cherry blossom front as it runs northward up the Japanese archipelago with the arrival of warmth via regular forecasts accompanying the weather part of a newscast TV.   The blossoming starts in Okinawa in January and commonly reaches Tokyo and Kyoto at the end of March or April. It continues into northern territories, arriving in Hokkaido several weeks later. Japanese careful attention to these forecasts and turn out in large numbers at parks and top cherry blossom places for and picnicking under the trees and taking photos. The pastime of cherry blossom seeing even gets i...

Who is the truly top predator of the animal kingdom on land? The lion? The king of the jungle Tiger? Grizzly Bear?  The real winner actually doesn't stay on land when they hunt, but it nevertheless scores as a land predator because it's overland. The predator to claim the crown with the most top kill percentage? The fierce dragonfly. According to scientific research published in 2013 in the journal " Integrative and Comparative Biology ," dragonflies only failed to catch their prey 5 percent of the time. This is assigned to their complex, specialized eyes that identify black spots against the sky coupled with their wings powered by individual muscles to perform a deadly mixture of agility and speedup. Another surprisingly unusual contender for the best killer is the black-footed cat, with a 60 percent kill percentage attributed to hunting every 30 minutes!  Below is the visualization created by Reddit user  Dremarious , using data presented by Discover Wildlife, BBC.

 Spring is one of the four seasons, replacing winter. There are countless definitions of the spring season, but the term’s regional usage varies according to local climate and customs. Reddit user Jsillin used the average spring bloom data from the U.S. National Phenology Network because, in his view, it matches up pretty well with when most things begin seeing green. Much of the United States' southern regions regularly have greenery by the end of March, but it will be a while in the country's Northwest or Northeast regions.

Annual temperatures compared to normal between 1920 and 2020 at different global latitudes Reddit user  neilrkaye  crated with ggplot in R a perfect visualization of the range of annual temperatures to normal between 1920 and 2020 at different global latitudes using HadCRUT5 data . It animation shows 11-year averages at every latitude. The little boxes are the individual annual average temperature measures adjusted to the 1961-1990 average at that latitude. The larger box inside the bar is the average over the 11 years currently presented. The bar reveals the range of average annual temperatures during those 11 years. So with each time step, a data point is added, and one is taken away at every latitude, so the average and range shift over time.