Fall Foliage 2019

[alex]

Just got back from a day trip to Montreal and it was interesting to see the difference. Great color from here through the NEK but diminishing rapidly around Jay, then a few areas of color around the mountains in Southern Quebec, and absolutely nothing in Montreal. It was very summery there

[wxeyeNH]

Loaded up the ebikes and headed north on this beautiful day.  Foliage is around 10-15% in Central NH.  Even in Franconia Notch as you can see it was still mostly green.  Color increases rapidly north of there.  

[OSUmetstud]

We were in Montreal and Quebec City the last week. Quebec City was mid while montreal was early...but it was a different story up in the Lauretians and Mt Tremblant. The mid-slope of the mountain up at about 1500 ft to 2000 ft was at peak...the top of the montain is mostly coniferous. 

[alex]

On 9/27/2019 at 5:16 PM, wxeyeNH said:

Loaded up the ebikes and headed north on this beautiful day.  Foliage is around 10-15% in Central NH.  Even in Franconia Notch as you can see it was still mostly green.  Color increases rapidly north of there.  

I went to the Flume today. Franconia Notch is way behind. That said, I think foliage in Franconia Notch sucks in general. Too many beech trees. It's never that great

[mreaves]

Took a ride to W. Leb, NH today. Down VT RT. 14 to East Randolph and then over the mountain to VT Rt. 110 through Chelsea and Tunbridge. Quintessential Vermont valleys and generally a very scenic ride any time of year.  To me, it was a bit dull and seemed brighter before the last couple of rain events. It seems like we lost some leaves to the rain and wind. 

[CT Valley Snowman]

Feels like we're waiting for the next wave of color after the initial changes.  Color does seem to come in waves which are often weather related.  

[rimetree]

Noticing quite a bit of stressed trees around here. Some appear to have already lost most of their leaves while others still mostly green.

[Sugarloaf1989]

Peak foliage color yesterday in Southern Vermont. I've never seen that before in late September. It's going to be an early end to the foliage season in most of Vermont.

 

 

 

 

[tamarack]

Lots of falling leaves yesterday, mostly white ash but a bunch from the sugar maples too.  Color is decent and will likely peak here later this week.

[backedgeapproaching]

6 hours ago, Sugarloaf1989 said:

Peak foliage color yesterday in Southern Vermont. I've never seen that before in late September. It's going to be an early end to the foliage season in most of Vermont.

If this is peak, then pretty disappointing season, was up at an event near Stratton yesterday, didnt really wow me.  Let's see what happens over next week or so.  Been pretty dry here in Sept.

[Sugarloaf1989]

1 hour ago, backedgeapproaching said:

If this is peak, then pretty disappointing season, was up at an event near Stratton yesterday, didnt really wow me.  Let's see what happens over next week or so.  Been pretty dry here in Sept.

The color seemed fine to me, much better than last year. It's not going to improve, only start going bare.

[wxmanmitch]

Almost peak here above 2K in S VT. Should peak within the next few days. Nice color, but still some greens while a few of my red maples are starting to go past peak already. Last year it seemed like everything changed at once and then dropped at once. 

 

[backedgeapproaching]

12 minutes ago, Sugarloaf1989 said:

The color seemed fine to me, much better than last year. It's not going to improve, only start going bare.

Last year was awful, so not hard to beat it. 

It's interesting how different years can be, 2017 I have pics from Oct 21 with almost high color in spots around here. '15, '16, '17 much better color IMO.

[Sugarloaf1989]

I'm contemplating about going to Killington tomorrow. Looks like peak foliage. The rain forecast for the rest of the week will end the season early I think.

[Sugarloaf1989]

4 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Last year was awful, so not hard to beat it. 

It's interesting how different years can be, 2017 I have pics from Oct 21 with almost high color in spots around here. '15, '16, '17 much better color IMO.

Last year had beautiful foliage from the NEK down to Killington and lousy south of there. The weather was just awful though with persistent rain and cloudiness.

[STILL N OF PIKE]

I was up in N NH yesterday

bjg change when you go north of Jackson and reach Wildcat color really begins popping, the Mount Washington Auto road forest looks great and across the road is very good. 

Bretton Woods is popping very nicely as well .

Kancamangus was underwhelming . Go north was near peak 

[alex]

Went for a ride up to Colebrook today; foliage is getting good! Certainly not at peak yet. Always forget how beautiful the Great North Woods area is. South Pond is just stunning. A bald eagle flew by but I didn't get a picture of it. 

[Damage In Tolland]

Wonder why the  colors are so crappy and dull in SNE with all the rain earlier in summer . Very mundane 

[OceanStWx]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Wonder why the  colors are so crappy and dull in SNE with all the rain earlier in summer . Very mundane 

Drove through your 'hood this weekend on the way to the Hudson Valley and it's all very orange/brown. 

[Sugarloaf1989]

LOL, peak is still 3 weeks away. Give it some time. 

[CapturedNature]

4 minutes ago, Sugarloaf1989 said:

LOL, peak is still 3 weeks away. Give it some time. 

My 20 year average is peak is 10/14 here.  We do tend to run about 7-10 days ahead of the valley.

[CapturedNature]

3 hours ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

I was up in N NH yesterday

bjg change when you go north of Jackson and reach Wildcat color really begins popping, the Mount Washington Auto road forest looks great and across the road is very good. 

Bretton Woods is popping very nicely as well .

Kancamangus was underwhelming . Go north was near peak 

I have to post some pictures but I was up in northern Maine and Quebec and drove south from there.  It was interesting to see the color change and was surprised and how underwhelming the Kanc was too after having driving down from central Quebec and Rte 3 from the tip of NH.  It was as if everything north of there had good bright colors but south of there it was more muted for the most part.  There's still some pockets of decent bright colors but lots of muted colors.

 

58 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

Drove through your 'hood this weekend on the way to the Hudson Valley and it's all very orange/brown. 

There's decent pockets off the Interstate but like I said in my comment above it's interesting how I encountered that same effect all the way from the White Mountains south earlier in the week.

[Sugarloaf1989]

3 minutes ago, MetHerb said:

My 20 year average is peak is 10/14 here.  We do tend to run about 7-10 days ahead of the valley.

 

4 minutes ago, MetHerb said:

My 20 year average is peak is 10/14 here.  We do tend to run about 7-10 days ahead of the valley.

It's around 10/23 here in Enfield, was Columbus Day when I lived in Coventry.  No way I would call the season on September 29th. It's about 95% green here.  Last year had late developing color in Enfield. MA and S. VT  had poor quality foliage color from start to finish.

[OceanStWx]

4 minutes ago, MetHerb said:

I have to post some pictures but I was up in northern Maine and Quebec and drove south from there.  It was interesting to see the color change and was surprised and how underwhelming the Kanc was too after having driving down from central Quebec and Rte 3 from the tip of NH.  It was as if everything north of there had good bright colors but south of there it was more muted for the most part.  There's still some pockets of decent bright colors but lots of muted colors.

 

There's decent pockets off the Interstate but like I said in my comment above it's interesting how I encountered that same effect all the way from the White Mountains south earlier in the week.

We actually have a lot of trees locally dumping their leaves already without much of a splash of color. My streets trees have given up most of their leaves now, but they did have a good initial burst of red before fading quickly.

[powderfreak]

Hiking around today, the color is pretty good, IMO.  It'll be peak soon but still green scattered around.   I think there was the fast change a week ago and now it's like a pause before another wave of color comes?  Some green and some trees with full leaf drop too but 75% color.

[CapturedNature]

2 minutes ago, Sugarloaf1989 said:

It's around 10/23 here in Enfield, was Columbus Day when I lived in Coventry.  No way I would call the season on September 29th. It's about 95% green here.  Last year had late developing color in Enfield. MA and S. VT  had poor quality foliage color from start to finish.

I agree about calling a season before it's over.  Last year was strange if you recall.  August ended cool and September started cool which kicked off an early change in some species.  Others didn't respond and when the warmer weather came they just hung on so there were almost like two  "peaks".  One for the early turners and then for the late turners.

[Sugarloaf1989]

5 minutes ago, MetHerb said:

I agree about calling a season before it's over.  Last year was strange if you recall.  August ended cool and September started cool which kicked off an early change in some species.  Others didn't respond and when the warmer weather came they just hung on so there were almost like two  "peaks".  One for the early turners and then for the late turners.

I'm just hoping for better weather this October, last year was persistently cloudy with lots of rain/wind. I only got two sunny days in Vermont. The last year that I can remember with good quality foliage in all of New England was 2016.

[powderfreak]

This afternoon... you can see one of the golf holes there at Stowe Mountain Club. 

Taken in harsh mid-afternoon light but still good color.

I think the foliage up here is par for the course, har har har.

[Damage In Tolland]

1 hour ago, OceanStWx said:

Drove through your 'hood this weekend on the way to the Hudson Valley and it's all very orange/brown. 

I know. It’s weird isn’t it? It’s been an ideal year wxwise for foliage, but worst colors in memory 

[OceanStWx]

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I know. It’s weird isn’t it? It’s been an ideal year wxwise for foliage, but worst colors in memory 

It was wild to be sweating it out in near 90 degree heat at a wedding with brown foliage halfway up the hills around Beacon, NY.