Here in southern Ontario (Canada), colors were generally pretty muted. There were individual trees that put on a display, but seldom anything more. We were informed that this was due to nights not being cool enough. Much of the fall here was about 10° C above the historical normal. Of course, there are many more serious problems with that than lack of fall colors.
I did manage to find a pretty nice display in a valley beside a highway in the city, but this was really an anomaly.
We had a pretty good showing of colour…fairly prolonged. But where I’m at the season stays pretty warm and bright through to November. But just now we are about halfway through all of the trees shedding their leaves.
What’s a “fall”? The palms and Joshua trees never change.
LMAO! You guys with no seasons…
We (Middle Rhine) had a lot of fog in the last weeks:
If not, see here: [Capture Challenge] Charge your battery and take some photos - #2567 by Kurt
(I didn’t want to post the same image again)
Here in central europe fall colors are as usual, although fall is approximately 2 weeks later than 20 years ago. Usually the best colors are on the last days of October and the first days of November. Last year fall was 2 weeks later, colors were very nice until mid November but that was an exception. This year the best colors were a few days earlier than usual, it started on 20-22st October, but on 30/31 October most leaves were already on the ground.
I am not sure. Maybe fall is longer in general, and not all trees are colorful approximately at the same time. So in the beginning we have a lot of green trees and some yellow/red ones, and pretty early we also start to have trees without leaves as well, and from 25th October we have lots of naked trees, some green ones and some yellow/red ones.
Here in Scotland, the autumn colours haven’t been bad. From a photographic point a view though, the rain, followed by the “anticyclonic gloom” haven’t helped.
We have seasons here in the US deep south:
This year there’s been very little fall color, even less than we usually have. Last year’s (2023) summer was very hot (100F+) and very long with very little rain. Then after a moderate bit of fall rain, we had our best color in decades, well through December. This year there’s been a little more rain and a little less extreme heat, but we’re still down on color.
I’m writing this from a weekend away in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas, which should be exploding with color by now. But the color is sporadic, dull and many of the trees are already losing leaves. At home (Louisiana) there’s even less color.
* As a friend once remarked, “Summer is nothing but a zit on the butt of weather.”
We have two seasons in Scotland, July and winter.
