Baroclinic Zone Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Some color showing up on my Maples and Birch now. Trees definitely took a hit from Irene with the wind driven salt drizzle. We need to start getting some cool/cold nights around here to speed up the change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Pretty much peak or nearly so here now. Heavy leaf drop already too in some spots, including at the homestead. Lost a ton last night in the downpours. Not our most brilliant fall so far--dry mid-summer lead to crispiness and a very wet late summer has lead to much fungus on the leaves, muting the colors... Still pretty though. Will take pics this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Its peak up at the ski resort... past peak above 2,500ft. Near peak in the village... maybe another week till true peak in the 700-1200ft range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Something weird is going on around my area in Central NH. Very muted color. The sugar maples seem to start turning dull colors then I notice the leaves shriveling up and just falling off. No bright colors at all. I have heard something about a mold going around but so far very poor color! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Very little color anywhere in SNE so far. Awful season this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 There is def color in the swamp maples and other trees along my drive up 93, but they are heavily dulled with a brownish tinge. GC style leaf drop at home after Irene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 30, 2011 Author Share Posted September 30, 2011 There is def color in the swamp maples and other trees along my drive up 93, but they are heavily dulled with a brownish tinge. GC style leaf drop at home after Irene. Yes, the usual suspects are changing colors around these parts. I have a Birch in my front yard that is basically fully exposed and it's lost about 75% of its leaves and the rest are all brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Very little color anywhere in SNE so far. Awful season this year Very little color here in Rindge NH at 1300'...terrible foliage season. I'd say the majority of the forest is still green, and the majority of the colors are muted yellows and browns from fungus-infested trees. Not at all beautiful as a New England fall should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Colors are muted in the hills here. Crappy season so far. Hopefully the cold snap can maybe bring out some good color on the later peaking trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makwx Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 The color here is dull. A few of the trees (not maples) have dropped most of their leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 My red maple is in shed moad, My oaks are just starting to turn red.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mica Vim Toot Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Tooling up and down the flooded Hudson river these past days. There is no color but shades of olive on hillsides and grey skies above. Even the air itself has been a grey and dingy soup of clammy vapor all Sept. Today is the first actual cool air of the season here. There has been no cool dryness to trigger the tannin flow and it shows. Badly. The river itself has been in various modes of flood stage since late Aug. Bankside houses are surrounded by shallow moats. Steeper and treeless embankments have let go in places. Some mud slides are eating away at peoples back yards where trees had been cleared away some time ago for the view. Boating on the Hudson is unsafe because of the flotsam. Wreckage of docks, walls, whole trees, derelict boats and rafts of logs and branches litter the waterway from Yonkers to Albany. There was a dead cow in the flotsam raft that collects in the "back draft" of our barge tow this morning. I'm wondering if I'm back on the Mekong river. No, Im not having a flashback. Lots of jaunty weekend sailors are losing their screws and beating their lower units. Stop that. Get your minds out of the gutter. So yeah, this year's foliage is a washout. I'll have to make a florid post about the economic catastrophe this has been unleashed upon the poor Chinese bus operators whose idling and barren coaches wait vainly for a load of bickering grouchy whiteheads to take their Fall peeping tours. Oh the suffering. Vim Toot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 The Kanc does not look too festive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Pittsburg, NH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 View from the road amidst the tenacious drizzle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Even a poor year is pretty, but... Very limited reds so far, mainly on wet-site red maples, though I have some hope for the sugar maples that wait until mid-Oct, and the late (sometimes into Nov) red maple on Sand Hill in Augusta, the most dependable red color in the area. Right around MBY the ash and birch are nearly bare, no surprise given the wind, as are most of the aspens, which normally shed late along with oak. Maples here are yellow-tan, and like about 6 other posters I'll say "muted", but also about 60% bare, where they usually hold 3/4 their leaves into 2nd week Oct. Possibly the earliest leaf fall I've seen since moving out of Ft.Kent. Even the trees in PQI/Ashland had more leaves last Thurs/Fri than MBY had just prior to my heading up there. (Slight fudge there, as N.Maine has little white ash and that early-dropping species is common at my place.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Another shot from the hood this morning with some cool fog formations: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masonwoods Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Brookline NH, which usually has fiery orange sugar maples by mid Oct, has their trees turning partially yellow then brown. Looks like victims of the dreaded Fungus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Might be the worst foliage season and latest in SNE history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Might be the worst foliage season and latest in SNE history Any idea how 1998 was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Pretty muted here in Plymouth too. Some color, and getting up there with leaf drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha5 Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Nothing but bleh here in SW CT. Any color is quickly muted by brown and the leaves drop off shortly there after. Looks like a bad season, worst ive seen in years. From the foliage network (http://www.foliagenetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=310:ne-foliage-report-7-2011&catid=34:northeast-us&Itemid=68) Another dreary weekend in the Northeast. Unfortunately, it appears that this won't be one of the better foliage displays. In the Capital Region of New York (where The Foliage Network is located), I've observed a good number of maple trees whose leaves turned yellow and brown and have fallen. In my front yard, there is a fantastic sugar maple that usually lasts the entire foliage season. However, this year, nearly all the leaves have already fallen. Many of our spotters have noted similar circumstances in their areas. I believe this is due to the trees being affected by anthracnose, a tree disease that readily affects leaves. It is caused by various fungi and it thrives in wet weather, something we have had plenty of in much of the Northeast. The good news is that the trees will recover from the disease. The bad news is the effect it will have this season. Please keep in mind that this disease is not affecting all trees, not even most. The trees that are infected will lose their leaves quite early. In addition to the anthracnose, the leaves are also a bit stressed from when Tropical Storm Irene affected the region.Will this foliage season be a bust? No. However, it would be nice if the weather would start to cooperate. Ideally, we would have mild, sunny days and cool, crisp evenings. As for the current foliage conditions, high color (60% - 80% change) can be found in much of northern Maine, portions of northern New Hampshire, northeastern Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York. In the higher peaks of the Adirondacks, foliage is currently at peak. In central Maine and New Hampshire and much of Vermont, moderate color (31% - 60% change) is the rule. The same holds true for the lower elevations of northern New York, portions of the Catskill Mountains in southeast New York and portions of New York's southern tier. Elsewhere in the region, color change is in the low range (11% - 30% change). Leaf drop is mostly low in the region. However, it is a bit higher (moderate) in some of the areas reporting high to peak color change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Pretty much a disaster in W. Ma. Maples are going straight to brown and coming off the trees. Birch and ash are still green. One of the most underwhelming foliage season's I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Some pics from the Kanc yesterday. It was so-so at the 1500ft level with quite a bit of leaf drop above that. I'd say leaf drop was 90-100% above 2k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Pretty much a disaster in W. Ma. Maples are going straight to brown and coming off the trees. Birch and ash are still green. One of the most underwhelming foliage season's I've seen. How are the apples near you? We were in New Salem and they were awful... worst I have ever seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Color is coming on very quickly in the Plymouth NH area. 2 or 3 days ago we were basically green or dull colors. Big change just from yesterday. Quite a bit of bright color coming on just today. Peak will be just before the rain mid week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Color is coming on very quickly in the Plymouth NH area. 2 or 3 days ago we were basically green or dull colors. Big change just from yesterday. Quite a bit of bright color coming on just today. Peak will be just before the rain mid week. I noticed a big difference here just between yesterday and today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Huge difference here in the past few days, as well... the reds really exploded. We are at peak now from the village up to the base of the ski resort... above about 2,500ft there's very little left on the trees. Today was the first day in a while I've gotten out on the 4-wheeler at the ski area, and the bottom half of the mountain (1,500-2,500ft) is beautiful but its looking like November (stick season) on the upper half from 2,500-4,000ft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowNH Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 I noticed a big difference here just between yesterday and today. I said the exact same thing yesterday to my self.... I drove up to Whitefield for a wedding this weekend. Said in the car "man these colors suck" Drove back yesterday and I was blown away. I though it might of been how the sun was in the sky, but Nope. Definitely a difference in Concord and MHT. I'm wondering if there was a couple day lag between the cold nights on Wed and Thursday of last week, and the color change This saturday and sunday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 We have a lot more color here too compared to before the weekend. But its all pretty muted. Some more reds, but they are nowhere near as good as years past. The warm and wet fall thus far has been a disaster for good color this year in the region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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