Fall, how long before it gets here?

[hunter63]

Guess it won't be long, took this last week at about 7o A.M. every tree as far as the eye could see.

Spooky, just stood on the porch, real quite, drinking my coffee, thinking about the old movie "The Birds".

[HilltopDaisy]

Yep, I've been hearing geese flying over, and today I saw hundreds of birds gathering in the pastures. We're supposed to have temps in the low 80's this week; unheard of for October in NY.

[canfossi]

The leaves are really changing here and have seen several flocks of Canada geese fly overhead south as well gathering in the fields. Also, lots of chickadees are around compared to a few weeks ago, are the chickadees a sign of winters approach? Chris

[stanb999]

I figure that the weather won't break untill after Halloween. It seems that the begining of Oct. is generally cool then the indian summer of mid oct. then the first front of Nov. generally brings the temps down. But with the forcast for the next ten days still above normal. I just don't see the cold untill later. I hope I'm right as this weather in spoiling us.

We're inching a little closer to it every day here in Florida. Not quite there yet, but I think it won't be much longer now.

.....Alan.

[Windy in Kansas]

We are having a really long fall period here. While leaves are falling most are still green and on the trees. Unusual for them to say on so long.

While we had a 40º+ day back in mid September it warmed back up again. Daily it is in the 80ºs and most nights don't dip below 57º. I could handle this year around.

Because of a shower a new flush of mosquitoes have shown up. Hopefully it will be the last until frost takes the last ones out.

[debra in ks]

I live in NE Kansas and we normally have to turn on the furnace at night the last week of Sept. and get our first killing frost 2 or 3 days before Halloween. I have yet to turn on the furnace this year and last year we didn't get the killing frost until the second week of Nov. Being a hayfever sufferer, I pay particular attention to when it freezes here, because it's a cause for celebration!

Our spring warm weather has been 2 weeks earlier the last 2 years.

[Jerngen]

We are at peak color up here. Maybe even a little past peak. Been getting a little chilly at nights. Think I should probably order up some fuel oil soon so I can fire up the furnace when needed!

Wished my native pecan trees had nuts on them this year. I yearn to hear the sound of crows and bluejays fighting over them in the cool frosty mornings.

[belladulcinea]

The birds do that around here about this time....it's scary. One of the fun things I let my big dogs do was chase the hundreds that would land in the park behind my house. I'd take them to the gate when the hillside was just black with those birds, they were pretty close to the yard, then I'd open the gate and the dogs would just run at them. It was fun watching them chase the silly things. Those big dogs are gone, but Bella could probably catch one! The big dogs would just come back with big oh happy faces!

[HomesteadBaker]

Originally Posted by hunter63

Guess it won't be long, took this last week at about 7o A.M. every tree as far as the eye could see.

Spooky, just stood on the porch, real quite, drinking my coffee, thinking about the old movie "The Birds".

It has been the same way here, too. Talk about a commotion when they all get to "talking" at the same time! I keep teasing the kids that "the birds are coming!!! Run for your life!!!! Hide!!" They know the Hitchcock movie classic, so they just roll their eys at me. LOL

Kitty

[uncle Will in In.]

It will get down below 30 degrees before the 31st of Oct. in Zone 5. Where's your anti-freeze?

[EDDIE BUCK]

I would like to know that as well. The calender and the trees say its fall, but the temp and humid says we are still in the middle of summer. That makes me But when it does I will be glad.

[jessepona]

Creepy.....

I wish Fall weather was here already! It seems like it comes later and later every year. At least since we haven't had much rain in the past month the mosquitoes are down so we don't count on the frost to kill them. It's still reaching the 80's here and it's October, where's the relief?

[Triffin]

No Fall here in CT either ..

Supposed to be in the mid 80s for the next 4-5 days ..
Lows in the high 50s to low 60s at night .. Still high
humidity .. weird .. I'm going to the beach this weekend ..
The water is still in the 70s .. just perfect !! ..

Triff ..

[Triffin]

I'm going to the beach this weekend ..
The water is still in the 70s .. just perfect !! ..


Update .. I did .. and It was !!

Triff@where'sfall.com

[Jim S.]

90 temp for here today. I think we fall to about 80 for the high by Friday. Fall will come soon, though, as it usually arrives here all at once, in 3-5 days. Suddenly it will be markedly cooler. The sun is already to the south, the geese are in strong formations, and biord flocked a long time ago. Might be 90 today, but the first woodstove fire is probably just 2-3 weeks away here. I just pray the cooldown brings rain!

[suburbanite]

The sun here feels like it has already gone south for the winter. Nights have been in the low 50's and sometimes high 40's, and days in the high 60's to low 70's.

Overall this year seems to have been cooler than most.

Still, I have melons yet growing and I hope that we do not get frost before our usual mid-November frost date.

But I think we're going to have another unusually cold, dry winter.

[Janis Sauncy]

Fall? Here in SW Washington, I think we skipped fall and went right to winter! Cool, damp, rainy, dreary...... No freezing temps yet (almost last night) but cool nights and below average temps in the day.

Usually September and October offers up some really nice weather, but not so this year. It doesn't look like we'll get an Indian summer. It's hard to enjoy the colors when everything is cloaked in a gray mist.

I think we skipped spring this year, too. It seems like we went right from winter to summer; I was still using my woodstove into June and now I've already been using it for the last two weeks.

I'm already sick of mud!

Janis

[Oxankle]

I'm over here a bit N. and E. of RH in Ok I believe, and darned if this weather is not strange.

I'm sitting here with over 4 inches of water in my rain gauge from the last three rains--a space of about three weeks. It has rained gently but plentifully all spring and summer. Most years we get at least one toad-strangler that puts water over the county road out front. Not this year.

Last year we were begging for rain and paying thru the nose for hay. This summer hay is everywhere. I mowed my pastures high to cut off the weeds and leave bermuda grass--its knee high to a yearling bull. Agmantoo told us a couple weeks back that he was about out of grass; Hope he got some rain.

TV says the Carolinas are burning up and that the Philly marathon was a killer. Wonder what those folks would do if they lived here.

Leaves are falling, some oaks are nearly bare but no color to speak of anywhere. If the geese and ducks are headed South they sure have not made much of a production of it here. Still have not heard the first flock overhead.

We know it is Fall because the TV is covered over with football, but the weather does not seem to match.
Ox