# Is it Fall in your neck of the woods? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827 "2024-10-15T11:29:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/21 "2024-10-15T15:46:18Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It’s about 107 last week, every day, but this week it is supposed to drop into the mid-90s. Where are you? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/22 "2024-10-15T15:51:12Z")
Sorry! I forgot. Mesa, AZ. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/23 "2024-10-15T16:00:38Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But you can tell fall is here - **the license plates have begun to change colors** , and the migratory RVs are returning. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/24 "2024-10-15T16:00:49Z")
Mid-70’s midday, mostly sunny, dropping to upper 40’s at night. Monsoon season begins in a couple of weeks but for right now it’s been mild and pretty. I’m putting new shoes on my car this week and have already put on new wiper blades and made sure the ice scrapers, umbrellas, jumper cables, and snow brooms are all in the cars. That’s the surest sign that autumn is upon us. Up in the mountains the leaves are turning and the forests are awash in yellow and red. I do love this time of year, even if cleaning out the rain gutters weekly is a PITA. Southwestern Oregon. > [@dolphinboy](#): > > Back in Montana, the daytime highs have already reached the low 40s with some snow expected before the end of the month. My mother grew up near Havre and fled the state after graduating MSU. She just couldn’t handle the brutal winters any longer. She said she’d much rather deal with Oregon’s 5 months of near constant rain then northern Montana’s months of sub-zero temps. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/25 "2024-10-15T16:07:08Z")
Fall has begun in central Maryland, high temps in the 50s and 60s, and leaves are changing color. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/26 "2024-10-15T16:22:21Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > My mother grew up near Havre and fled the state after graduating MSU. She just couldn’t handle the brutal winters any longer. She said she’d much rather deal with Oregon’s 5 months of near constant rain then northern Montana’s months of sub-zero temps. For the first five years I enjoyed the Montana winters, as cold and snowy as they were. Being originally from California, I enjoyed the changing seasons and low cost of living, and I was willing to put up with shoveling my deck weekly, and plowing my long driveway daily for four months. Now I’m older and wiser, and I’ve seen most of my old neighbors disappear in October and return in May when the snow is gone. They have the best of both worlds. Summer in Montana and Winter in Arizona. I’m sort of doing the same thing living in Tulsa for six months, however Oklahoma surely isn’t Montana, which is both a good and bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/27 "2024-10-15T20:26:10Z")
The cool weather has arrived, about two weeks late. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/28 "2024-10-15T22:17:48Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > They have the best of both worlds. Summer in Montana and Winter in Arizona. And I, a resident of AZ, have the worst of both worlds. 120 degree summer days, and Montana snowbirds in the winter. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/29 "2024-10-15T22:30:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And I, a resident of AZ, have the worst of both worlds. 120 degree summer days, and Montana snowbirds in the winter. You got me on the 120 degrees, but I’ll challenge your Montana snowbirds with my ‘Winter Texans’ that come from Minnesota. It’s like driver’s education up there is a correspondence school 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/30 "2024-10-15T22:34:09Z")
I drove all the driveway markers (for plowing snow) today. In shorts, flip-flops and a tee shirt. I made a bitchin’ stake driver out of some 3/4" pipe with a welded cap. Mini fence post driver. Pro tip: welding in flip-flops is not smart. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/31 "2024-10-15T22:35:06Z")
I’m near Wichita, about 4 hours from Tulsa. 3 days ago we had a record high temperature of 94 degrees. Tonight there are frost warnings. Kansas will Kansas, but this is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/32 "2024-10-15T22:37:17Z")
New England. Towering pinky orange trees reflected in the rivers and ponds. Highs have been in the high forties, low fifties, but we haven’t quite had a hard freeze yet. Some autumnal sideways drizzle when it isn’t sunny. I should pick my bell peppers and eggplants, well, yesterday. We’ll see how they are tomorrow. Although winters are kinda long here, they are nothing like those interior high plains winters. I can endure some cold, but humid heat makes me want death to come early and deliver me. I love fall. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/33 "2024-10-15T22:37:31Z")
Could you please not use 'fall" and “neck” in the same sentence? At my age that can be a touchy subject. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/34 "2024-10-15T22:39:07Z")
It’s been an unseasonably warm fall in Memphis. Over the weekend, the temps were near 90. Then Sunday night it dropped about 35 degrees. Yesterday was in the 60s, right now it’s 54 (late afternoon). I will have to turn on the heat tonight for the first time since the temp will be 40. It will be coldish the rest of the week. Looking at the forecast, next week should have temps back to upper 70s, low 80s. A lot of flowers bloomed that weren’t supposed to in the last few weeks. The leaves have not started changing but that usually happens in November. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/35 "2024-10-15T22:42:19Z")
It’s been in the 70s and 80s in central Indiana until today. Now it’s Autumn. There’s frost warnings out for tonight and tomorrow night. Someone mentioned a chance of snow. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827/36 "2024-10-15T23:02:06Z")
First snow was early September. Only about 3 inches and it went away fast. I think we are expecting snow this weekend. Supposed to get about an inch on Thursday. Actually, it’s been unseasonably warm at elevation. But hanging out on the deck is over for sure. Elevation can be brutal. The sun will kill you, you really need a hat. And so will winters. Layer up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-fall-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/1008827.md?page=1)