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In East, it's cherry blossom season
By TIMES WIRES
Published January 6, 2007
NEW YORK - The cherry blossoms are blooming in Brooklyn by the thousands, daffodils are budding in the Bronx, and in Central Park, toddlers have yet to see a single snowflake this winter, the first time in more than a century that the city's most celebrated sledding slopes have been snow-free so long. Throughout the region, winter seems in full retreat. Temperatures have been running 6 degrees above normal for a month or more, federal weather experts said. Even the artificial snow on ski slopes is melting. For New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston this weekend, weather experts forecast April in January, with temperatures in the 60s. In fact, balmy temperatures are forecast for the entire Eastern seaboard in the week ahead - as much as 20 degrees above normal in some areas - while the West can expect abnormal cold. This winter, the abnormal is becoming routine. The unseasonable warmth in the East has flooded some doctors' offices with patients suffering from an ailment that's unusual this time of year: allergies. "The phone is ringing off the hook - it's incredible," said Dr. Clifford Bassett, who has a practice in Manhattan.
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