# It is officially Fall in NE Ohio!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 9, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787 "2004-09-09T14:50:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/1 "2004-09-09T14:50:47Z")
Don’t care what the calendar says, Fall has arrived! The rain from Frances has stopped, and the air is cold, with that unmistakable scent of Fall. The oak trees in the front yard are filled with twittering birds, eagerly discussing their travel plans and the roof of the house is covered with sparrows and doves. The red-headed woodpecker is sitting at the base of the tree in the backyard, and the squirrels are playing tag while they bury acorns in the front yard. The sun is nowhere to be found, and the breeze is wonderful. I must find a sweater, but my feet will stay bare for at least another month, because I’m just that way.
Have the seasons changed where you are?
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/2 "2004-09-09T15:00:16Z")
Ooh, and as an aside, I am now desperately craving apple cider.
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### Author:  [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/3 "2004-09-09T15:14:32Z")
I’m wit’cha sista!
Jeez!
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/4 "2004-09-09T15:19:59Z")
It’s not quite fall here in Dallas, but it’s certainly not summer either. It was 62° here this morning. Not quite a record low, but close!
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/5 "2004-09-09T15:22:25Z")
Err, make that 59°. I must’ve looked at the wrong figure the first time around.
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/6 "2004-09-09T15:48:17Z")
No!
Don’t say that.
Its still summer.
Once it was 86 in October.
Its not really autumn til the leaves change, you know.
😉🆒 :mad: :rolleyes:
leaf color smilies
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/7 "2004-09-09T19:08:10Z")
Well, **vanilla** I hate to tell you, but I just spent an hour picking up twigs, branches, leaf clumps and toadstools, and the leaves are turning as we speak. In fact last week we saw the first trees start to go all Fall Fashion Update. Green still predominates, but there was a glimmer of red and yellow in the yard waste bucket. And the sun is still a no-show today. Fall is inevitable.
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/8 "2004-09-09T19:21:17Z")
Well, I don’t know if it’s true or not (I have no experience with Ohio fall weather to judge), but it’s rather pleasant out there today.
It does make me wonder how soon I’ll get to learn to drive in snow though. That’s going to be an experience I won’t forget, I’m sure!
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### Author:  [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/9 "2004-09-09T22:35:37Z")
**kitten** , that sounds…heavenly.
I don’t know how much the seasons in California differ, so…
Back in Mississippi it didn’t change to fall until at least most of the way through September, and even then it didn’t hit its stride until mid-October or so. Autumn is one of the things I love about Mississippi.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/10 "2004-09-09T22:57:44Z")
Oh, well how nice for _you.__Your_ thread gets visitors and answers and attention, while [_mine_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=275221) is languishing on page three without a \*single \* visitor ::sob, snivel, snuurrrk:: It’s fall here too, ya know, and it’s real purdy.
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### Author:  [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/11 "2004-09-09T23:00:06Z")
Fall in NE Ohio is great - the Cleveland area has, typically, a full, gradual, three month autumn. I’ve seen leaves on the trees still at Thanksgiving. We’re coming up for a visit in mid-October and I can’t wait.
**tpayne,** Chagrin Falls Native
P.S. IMHO Autumn in Ohio was why American football was invented. Nothing beats a crisp dry Friday night game up there.
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### Author:  [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/12 "2004-09-09T23:06:02Z")
This part of the world is verdantly and strikingly green for the spring and summer. We can tell that fall is coming because of the nip and mist in the morning and because the soy bean fields have turned to bright yellow – it is an interesting contrast. It will be another week or so before the maple trees turn. Most importantly this week end is the Iowa - Iowa State game. The horrors of an upper Midwestern winter cannot be far behind.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/13 "2004-09-09T23:42:58Z")
Well, after a week of 100+ temperature, we have cooled off a bit. It’s only 97 at 4:45pm today. Tuesday it was 106 when I drove past the sign downtown at 4:30pm.
Lows have been in the low 60’s.
I can’t wait for fall. It will come mid October sometime.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/14 "2004-09-10T00:41:23Z")
Central Colorado Mountains here.
I miss Fall. We had 1" of snow last weekend. The seasons turn very, very fast. And winter lasts about 6 months. Most mornings are at freezing now.
We seem to skip Fall. We will still get some good weather. And I need it. The next two weekends will be used to finish siding the addition I’m putting on. I really hope the weather holds a little bit. Then it can snow, snow, snow.
The Aspens will be pretty though. The colors will last a couple of weeks. It’s nothing like back east though.
There is a song about “When the sun goes down in a Colorado town, you better get in for the evening.” It’s true. Cold comes fast at altitude.
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/15 "2004-09-10T12:03:22Z")
In my misspent youth I lived in Colorado (Springs) for a few years and also in Columbus, Georgia. I remember one sunny day in January, 1980 in Colorado when I walked out the door into the sunshine and got irrationally angry because the sun was shining, again! It took me a while to realize that I had spent 22 years in the cozy cocoon of overcast skies in Ohio, where seeing the sun in the winter is a precious gift, not a daily sensory blast. And after living for so long in the arid, open space of the Front Range where you could see for twenty miles, going home to Ohio in the summer and being enveloped by the lush foliage of the trees, where you could only see for a block, was comforting.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/16 "2004-09-10T12:34:06Z")
The roads here in Tennessee were wreathed in an incredibly dense fog this AM, a sure sign of Autumn in Tennessee.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/17 "2004-09-10T13:04:31Z")
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> In my misspent youth I lived in Colorado (Springs) for a few years and also in Columbus, Georgia. I remember one sunny day in January, 1980 in Colorado when I walked out the door into the sunshine and got irrationally angry because the sun was shining, again!
It is VERY sunny in Colorado. In the mountains, combine the sun, altitude and perpetual snow on the ground and you run a real risk of serious sunburn.
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/18 "2004-09-11T11:58:50Z")
Too sunny. Us native Ohioans live for Seasonal Affective Disorder. Our natural rhythyms require gloomy days. Which doesn’t explain why so many of us move to Florida, but does explain why we keep popping up back North every few months. You can’t appreciate what you get every day.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-officially-fall-in-ne-ohio/263787/19 "2004-09-11T13:24:12Z")
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> Too sunny
Yep. I like the rainy days, when we get them. I’m from the mid-west. I know what a week of gray weather is like.
But, it is amazing to wake up to deep, deep blue skies, brilliant sunshine and a foot of new snow on the ground. It’s so quiet. It’s like a new world. Can’t quite explaine it.