This tracks for us in Vermont. It's barely rained since early July, and of the trees in our yard, the birch is damn near bare, the oak is starting to drop, and the maple is just holding on to its leaves. In the wider area I drive in, the trees are starting to show some color.
We're looking forward to some rain this week, but we're a ways behind[0]. If you have New England fall foliage plans, you might want to move them up if you can.
Confimed. I live in the tiny bit of "moderate" color that is dipping down from Vermont into Western Mass. We are in a drought and the leaves seem to be just drying up and dropping instead of changing colors. I'm hoping the rain this week doesn't just knock them off the trees.
It feels like it's going to be a pretty lackluster leaf season, with everything going at different times. Note to tourists: if you'd like to bring some leaves home, take as many as you'd like.
Indeed, I just drove across the state on Saturday and things are just starting to change in the higher valleys. Stressed trees are starting in the lower valleys as well.
We travel to New England the first week of October every year regardless to see family. It’s usually a great week to see the foliage, but considering the way everything has been going here in NC (leaves are already starting) I was expecting an early start, it’s a bummer to hear confirmed. Oh well, looking forward to visiting either way. See y’all in a few weeks!
Can confirm. North central VT a lot of brown/leaf drops very early without even rain. Of which, with this morning's 0.25" we are at 1.08" for Sept after 1.72" in Aug. That said, there are some reds developing and a smattering of yellows.
Advise leaf peepers to skip my town and just stay in NJ ;)
Yeah you can't really have a foliage map without a drought map to accompany it. The fall colors are a fickle thing. Last year's was pretty drab in lower NY. The year before it was quite good.
The biochemistry of photosynthesis is wild. The fact that these are mobile power stations that plants remove from the frontline for winter is mind blowing. (The closest I can think of would be your eyes shipping all of their retinal into your liver or whatever while you sleep.)
We decided to drive down to see the seasons change... Was a long trip through Virginia... Kentucky... Tennessee... Georgia... but its just so magical to me to come from the north... where it is cold... to the south... where it is warm... To see the tremendous differences from region to region... in this incredible country ours. Mmmm.
Living in the middle of the Sonora Desert, I unfortunately don't get to experience the wonderful fall weather of the midwest anymore. I hope to someday move to a place where I can enjoy it again, it was always my favorite time of year when I was a kid.
My first visit to Japan was late last fall. Tokyo around the 25th, Hiroshima before the end of the month, Miyajima Island, and working my way back north through the 13th of December.
I had heard the colors around Kyoto would peak in November, but I certainly didn't expect it to be so beautiful into December.
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We're looking forward to some rain this week, but we're a ways behind[0]. If you have New England fall foliage plans, you might want to move them up if you can.
[0]https://www.drought.gov/states/vermont
Advise leaf peepers to skip my town and just stay in NJ ;)
The biochemistry of photosynthesis is wild. The fact that these are mobile power stations that plants remove from the frontline for winter is mind blowing. (The closest I can think of would be your eyes shipping all of their retinal into your liver or whatever while you sleep.)
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Seattle in the summer and western Pennsylvania in the fall.
There's something magical about the leaves changing color, crisp air in the morning, chilly nights with hot chocloate or apple cider.
I had heard the colors around Kyoto would peak in November, but I certainly didn't expect it to be so beautiful into December.