D.C.’s cherry blossoms will reach peak bloom from March 23 to 26, officials predict

The National Park Service predicted Thursday that D.C.'s cherry blossoms will reach peak bloom from March 23 to March 26. Peak bloom is defined as the point when 70 percent of the blossoms along the Tidal Basin have flowered. The event attracts droves of tourists and locals to the Tidal Basin — the reservoir on the Mall — every year to visit the flowering trees, which were a gift from Japan in 1912. The National Cherry Blossom Festival also returns, from March 20 through April 14, with dozens of events...