After living through 15 harsh winters in Northwest Montana I decided to spend the Fall and Winter months with my daughter and grandson in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My daughter is single, works full time, and could use some help raising her rambunctious 11-year-old. I left in mid-September and won’t be heading back up north until mid-March.
I was surprised at how hot it still was in Tulsa, and it continued to stay hot until yesterday. The heat wave finally broke, and it went from the low 90s to the low 70s in just two days and now feels livable. Back in Montana, the daytime highs have already reached the low 40s with some snow expected before the end of the month.
So what’s been the highest daily temperature in your neck of the woods this week? Has Fall arrived for you yet?
Southeast England here. We’ve had a few nights with low single digit (C) temps but later this week some parts of the country could reach 22C during the day. Only a few trees have started to change colour and drop their leaves.
In SE Michigan we could have our first frost of the season tonight and lthe leaves have already been complety stripped from one of my trees, so that is a sign of the Fall season for me.
Chicago area and, until last week, we were still getting 80F weather at least once a week. This week is more like 55/35 so more autumnal though I think it creeps up again by the weekend.
Leaves are just starting to fall which means the trees will probably still be half full when the county leaf pick-up period ends. Yay.
UK midlands here - it’s cooler outside (which is great for me!) and the leaves are starting to change colour but no major leaf-fall yet. We have had overnight lows that were just above freezing, followed by daytime temperatures in the mid- to high teens. The weather seems to be confused!
We tried to get some fall color pics this weekend. It was weird, one pond/lake was mostly green but another, < 5 miles away was pretty much at peak. I’m guessing it’s different trees but didn’t look closely enough at the first one to know what they were (other than disappointing).
It’s been unseasonably hot here in SE Texas. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 60s, and up in Houston they broke a couple of records in the upper 90s. Tomorrow we are supposed to get a cold front that will put daytime temps in the low seventies for a few days, and then we are presumably going to have more normal temps for this time of year - highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s.
Northern California it’s been effing hot, like 20 degrees above average and a number of days over 100F - in October. Leaves have been falling off some trees due to the heat and not because of a change in seasons. Fall? Ha-ha-ha!!
We’re seeing a lot of color in Minneapolis. A lot of people think that the leaves turn and fall because of temperatures, but it’s actually a function of how much daylight there is. That said, night temps have been in the mid-30s the past few days, with highs in the 50s. That’s going to change in coming days and we’ll be back in the 70s.
NE MN
Friday we were in the 70s but that will be the last of that. We had frost the last two nights. It was 29 degrees this morning when I walked the dogs. Daytime temps are in the upper 40s-50s. We’ll see some lower 60s this weekend but that will be a short-lived treat. We’ve been at peak for leaf color for about a week now. Some of the roads are practically glowing with color. It still amazes me every year.
It’s been surprisingly warm here. Only turned on the furnace twice briefly two mornings. One morning low in the upper 30s. Nothing close to a frost. The tree outside my window has only a few leaves turning yellow. Normally they’d be dead and mostly fallen off.
All in a climate where hard freezes and snow would have normally been common by now.
The forecast for Sat. has rain/snow mix but temps still above freezing so don’t expect much.
This is just freakishly weird.
There’s a La Niña about to start up but that doesn’t explain the weather even if it was here already.
Shortening light triggers the chemical changes that cause leaf color but temperature and moisture can play a big part in both how vibrant the colors are and whether the leaves start dropping prematurely before they really change.
Tomorrow’s mid-80s looks like the last gasp of summer here in NE Wyoming. After that the temps drop 20°, then stay down where they belong for the next week.
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