Cherry blossom time now comes 7-8 days earlier than it did 30 years ago, according to this article in the Enterprise. While Jim Nugent, former director of the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center, is reluctant to attribute the trend to global warming, the change is certainly consistent with that theory.

Another interesting fact from the same article: even within the relatively small area of Leelanau County, the blossom does not come all at once, but rather moves slowly northward from the southernmost edge of the county to the Northport area over 7-10 days.