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October 2024 General Discussion


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1 minute ago, cyclone77 said:

We've had two hard freezes here but there's still a ton of bugs around.  The ladybugs have gone apeshit over the past few days, worse than I've ever seen.  

lol yeah ladybugs were all over the lakefront trail yesterday

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1 hour ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

They seem a bit duller, leaves just drying out and turning brown quicker, but we are at peak so colors are still magnificent. 
 

Every year they make a big deal out of the best conditions for the best color, and while some years are more brilliant (or longer) than others, I've never seen a color show disappoint. Simply does not happen in the upper midwest/Great Lakes/northeast with our variety of trees/colors. 

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3 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

We've had two hard freezes here but there's still a ton of bugs around.  The ladybugs have gone apeshit over the past few days, worse than I've ever seen.  

Same here. They are trying everything to get inside houses

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10 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

re: ladybugs and for the more u know file

i guess the october swarming, especially warm days after a first freeze is a thing

https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/lifestyle/2022/10/19/how-the-ladybugs-history-explains-its-autumn-appearance/69568617007/

 

I feel so validated by all of this talk because the last week or so, whenever I take my dog for a walk in the forest preserve by my house, it smells overwhelmingly of ladybug, and I thought I was just losing it. I imagine there's probably just a big gathering somewhere close to the entrance that I haven't discovered

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7 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Every year they make a big deal out of the best conditions for the best color, and while some years are more brilliant (or longer) than others, I've never seen a color show disappoint. Simply does not happen in the upper midwest/Great Lakes/northeast with our variety of trees/colors. 

I’ll note, the large Swamp White Oak outside our house went from mostly green to post peak in 4 days. Yesterday it was peak color and today brown and dropping leaves. Trees aren’t holding the color as long this year and dropping leaves rather quickly. 

84 here this afternoon. 

 

Yes i am awful at taking pictures.

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4 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

I’ll note, the large Swamp White Oak outside our house went from mostly green to post peak in 4 days. Yesterday it was peak color and today brown and dropping leaves. Trees aren’t holding the color as long this year and dropping leaves rather quickly. 

84 here this afternoon. 

 

Yes i am awful at taking pictures.

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I don't know. Looks like a perfect image to me. Shows the brown in exquisite form and sharpness with some color in the background for even more contrast. It tells the story you are telling in a very clear manner.

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On 10/21/2024 at 9:01 AM, michsnowfreak said:

Every year they make a big deal out of the best conditions for the best color, and while some years are more brilliant (or longer) than others, I've never seen a color show disappoint. Simply does not happen in the upper midwest/Great Lakes/northeast with our variety of trees/colors. 

Yea, I think they're all pretty much the same.

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23 hours ago, bowtie` said:

I don't know. Looks like a perfect image to me. Shows the brown in exquisite form and sharpness with some color in the background for even more contrast. It tells the story you are telling in a very clear manner.

Appreciate the kind words. I hold myself to the same standard as others in this subforum especially @michsnowfreak so my crappy iPhone 8 pics aren’t up to snuff.

Another dry frontal passage this evening. Gusty NW winds and rapidly falling temperatures. Back to autumn.

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16 minutes ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Appreciate the kind words. I hold myself to the same standard as others in this subforum especially @michsnowfreak so my crappy iPhone 8 pics aren’t up to snuff.

Another dry frontal passage this evening. Gusty NW winds and rapidly falling temperatures. Back to autumn.

Aww thanks. I have an android, they take great pics (I'm the family outcast with phones, everyone else loves iphones lol).

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Just keep getting spits of rain. Other than a week ago when I saw not quite a 1/2", this Fall has been very dry. Only 0.62" since Sept 1. Temps running seasonable to mild. Need some good winds to knock off the dying leaves. High school football playoffs underway this week. Two Harbors played well this year (7-1). They got a 1st round bye at 2nd seed. They play this Sat. My grandson has done well this year. Hopefully they will make it to state, but that's a tough climb. He did go to state in track earlier this year, tho. :) 

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On 10/21/2024 at 8:01 AM, cyclone77 said:

We've had two hard freezes here but there's still a ton of bugs around.  The ladybugs have gone apeshit over the past few days, worse than I've ever seen.  

I've noticed there is this weird bug like a small black fruit fly that will land on your wrists/hands and bite, leaving a small welt. Never seen them before. The bugs are bad with the fantastic heat we've had.

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10 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

There's something magical about that late day Autumn light hitting the trees. Just love it!

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Love the older trees along the streets. We have many here in TH like that, too, except they have been redoing the sewer lines, and streets every year for the past few years. In doing so, they cut down the old trees, and it just makes it so open, and I don't care for that. It'll be decades for many of our streets to look like that again. Back in the 70's/80's when Dutch Elm disease hit, and they all had to be cut down, it was the same way. Thankfully, many maples were in the mix, so it wasn't as bad. 

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The NWS forecast said 38º this morning.  I put my flower pots in the garage just to be safe.  It was already 36º at bedtime and I woke up to 31º.

Tonight is our first chance of good rain in two months.  However, how much we'll get remains a mystery.  Models are all over the place... from barely anything at all to 1.5".  It's possible all the rain misses east and south.

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7 hours ago, Brian D said:

Love the older trees along the streets. We have many here in TH like that, too, except they have been redoing the sewer lines, and streets every year for the past few years. In doing so, they cut down the old trees, and it just makes it so open, and I don't care for that. It'll be decades for many of our streets to look like that again. Back in the 70's/80's when Dutch Elm disease hit, and they all had to be cut down, it was the same way. Thankfully, many maples were in the mix, so it wasn't as bad. 

I'm the same way! They did that last year here with sewer lines, cutting down some big trees then replacing them with new small trees when the project was done. I HATE when they cut down old trees! Fortunately still lots of tree lined streets here. But the ones with less trees are simply missing something imo. It's not the same.

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