No global warming or climate change they say? Perhaps one can take either side politically, but in my 15+ years of tea buying trip, this is the only Spring Harvest with:
- Super early growth from heat (March 20th).
- Followed immediately by snow and frost (an occurrence only 9 times in a 1000 year recorded history in many regions). Imagine snowing in Hawaii.
- Non-stop drenching rains — that never happens this time of the year. Usually a light rain in mid April called ‘Gu Yu’, is a benchmark rain (as in Pre-Rain Dragonwell) and lasts a couple of days. This year Gu Yu is supposed to be April 20th. Today, Yellow Alert rain conditions in Hong Kong, after the blackest day of pouring sheets yesterday in GZ.
I bet the dinosaurs didn’t spend time debating about this.
I bet the tea plants will mutate and adapt to these new challenging weather patterns. Incidences of mutation occurs every 15 year generations. The question is whether humans will survive as well to enjoy the teas?
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