First frost in Nebraska now nearly one month late.

[kansasblue]

City Spring Fall
Ainsworth 5/21 9/24
Falls City 5/3 10/3
Grand Island 5/16 9/26
Lincoln 5/9 9/30
North Platte 5/25 9/10
Omaha 5/12 9/23
Scottsbluff 5/25 9/14
York 5/10 9/30

[TwilightGardener]

1. Yep. My roses are still blooming. Very weird.

[kansasblue]

2. picked a cucumber just yesterday.

and tomatoes too.

[Ecumenist]

3. Well, here in northern California, we've already had our first...

At LEAST a MONTH EARLY.. But of course, there's no such thing as Global Warming and radical climate change...:shrug:

[Arger68]

4. We haven't even had frost in southern Minnesota yet.

It's well over a month late here!

[Zookeeper]

5. Here in Mpls./St. Paul (MN) we've had rain 18 days out of 20....

which is unusual for fall. Most of our summer was spent in drought. No frost yet, much less a hard freeze. (We still have mosquitoes in mid-October!)

I sure hope it isn't going to be another winter without snow. :(

[jpak]

6. In Maine we have a saying...

"Open Winter - Fat Graveyards"

[Zookeeper]

9. Now, I know I've heard something like that.....

but I can't remember the reason behind the saying...

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. That's a new one on me. What's that mean?

[jpak]

18. Back in the day, mortality rates were higher during mild snow-less winters

so "they" say...

[NickB79]

7. I'm waiting for the day we start seeing armadillos along I-35

They're already up into Nebraska, and still moving north.

The first roadkill armadillo I see, I'm boxing it up and mailing it to that rightwing nutjob on the radio who likes to say global warming is a liberal myth.

[Zookeeper]

8. LOL! Yes, I was wondering this morning how long it will be....

before MN is dealing with termites and kudzu.

:hi:

[NNadir]

11. Here in New Jersey, tommorrow's forecast calls for 78F. Spiders are fat.

They have plenty to eat.

There were a ton of moths running up against the windows.

The leaves on many trees have yet to turn.

In our ten day forecast, there is just one day with a high expected below 60F and only one day with an overnight low predicted of less than 45F.

[AlecBGreen]

12. "The leaves on many trees have yet to turn."

chlorophyll breakdown depends on daylength, not temperature.

[Zookeeper]

13. I think it's more complicated than that...

the color change also depends on rain, or lack of, and temperature does play a part.

If the fall colors only depended on the length of the day, they would be as predictable as sunrise and sunset times. Here in MN, every year the timing is different (within a certain window).

[AlecBGreen]

17. you're right

I thought it was strictly dependent on photoperiod but I looked it up and found its a combination of factors - daylength, temperature, and precipitation. :hi:

[NNadir]

16. I guess you should come by and inform our trees.

They seem not to have very good grades in that course.

[phantom power]

14. The new climate, slouching towards Bethlehem to be born.

[hatrack]

15. I harvested watermelon this week, along with cucumbers & tomatoes

And this is in west-central Missouri.