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Welcome to your fourth and likely last weekly Bountiful Bloom Update for the 2025 growing season. If you missed last week's March 3, 2025, Bountiful Bloom update, you can read it here.
Let's dive in!
🌸 Bloom Update
March 4 - March 10, 2025
Most trees are leafed out and done with bloom, with some stragglers in petal fall, mostly later-blooming varieties like Butte, Padre. Nutlets are forming and are growing more visible each day. Conditions this past week were generally good across the valley, with the exception of a rain event on March 5th (more on this later in the weather portion of this week's update in the Precipitation section).
For this week, weather forecasts are calling for rain and wind in the middle to the latter half of this week. We will see how the little nutlets fare.
Consistent daily bloom observations have come from the Central region of the state followed by the South, then the North. You can see this below for the 2025 Almond Bloom, showing the progression of bloom stages reported by day👇.
Bloom submissions received at Bountiful Bloom show all regions are at nearly the same stage, petal fall.
📣 If you're in the South or North regions, we'd love your support with bloom observations to increase coverage in these areas.
🌡️🌧️ Weather
A look at current temperature and precipitation trends
🌡️ Temperature
Temperature averages this year across the state continue to be about the same as this time last year. However, the extremes continue to be more pronounced, with higher maximum temperatures and lower minimum temperatures. This trend of higher maximum and lower minimum temperatures holds across all counties and regions in California.
Below 👇, you'll see Temperatures for 2/1-3/9 for 2025 compared to 2024 for Kern County.
To view Temperature for another specific county or for the whole state, go to Agriculture: Weather in the Bountiful platform.
🌧️ Precipitation
In portions of the Central and most of South, about a half inch of rain was reported on March 5th; this is in addition to the rain that was seen last week on March 3rd.
Below 👇, you'll see Precipitation for 2/1-3/9 for 2025 compared to 2024 for Kern County.
To view Precipitation for a specific county or the whole state, go to Agriculture: Weather in the Bountiful platform.
🐝 Bee Flight & ❄️ Chill Portions
The effect of weather on bee flight hours and chill portions
🐝 Bee Flight Hours
Bee Flight hours overall increased 9% to 18% over last week's reported data on March 3, 2025. Overall, bee flight hours are continuing to trend below last year, down -20 to -39% YoY.
In the table below 👇, you'll see current Bee Flight Hours by week and Total Bee Flight Hours to Date for 2025 vs 2024.
Bee Flight Hours update directly in Bountiful Bloom to see them submit an observation.
❄️ Chill Portions
Chill Portions across all regions are slightly down over last year for the same period. Bountiful begins calculating chill as of September 1 of the previous year.
Below 👇 you'll see the cumulative Chill Portions for 2025 vs 2024.
Chill Portions update directly in Bountiful Bloom; to see them submit an observation.
You can stay on top of changing bee flight hours and chill at BountifulAlmonds.com, and while you're there, please submit a bloom observation.
This Week's Featured Bloom Shot
Here are a few pictures from the last few days, with bloom quickly wrapping up.
📸👆: Megan N. in Merced County
📸👆: Joe D. in Merced County
📸: Michael B. in Fresno County
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Wishing you a Bountiful Bloom!
