Things are starting to fade here in northern Connecticut after a fairly colorful past 10 days. It was a rather long and drawn-out foliage season that lacked cohesiveness at times but there was some times of pretty nice color. Clean up will start this weekend
Foliage was pretty garbage on my ride down to sw ct today. Brown and green were the primary colors. Definitely waiting for the 2nd wave of color after a nice burst about a week ago.
Color is moderate here. Not very uniform change. Early turning maple trees and swampy areas are going a bit past with the but still a decent amount of turning or green foliage as well depending on the species and location.
Still plenty of leaves left here as we avoided the heaviest rain and worst winds. I'm thinking Columbus day October 10-12 may end up being peak this year around here whereas in a normal year we are more like October 18- 20. I feel as though the warm-up may have helped to decelerate the process a bit here, after color started to pop rapidly when we had our first frost and freeze.
https://www.quincyvagell.com/2014/03/27/new-england-hurricane-tracks/#:~:text=The “typical” New England hurricane,fit the data fairly well.
It was actually part of an article written by a well known meteorologist formerly from New England Quincy Vagell.
Yes Sandy is included in this graphic that I found already labelled online, even though it did not technically make landfall in New England it certainly had a significant impact on the south coast but yes technically you are correct.
Keeping expectations low to perhaps moderate based on everything I've see thus far. Hopefully I'm pleasantly surprised or we get lucky with mesoscale features or favorable nuances in the midst of a hostile pattern.
As for DIT He just does not accept mediocrity well and we're losing the damage threat and anomalous type effects from the system, although there could still be heavy band of rain that sets up, especially in Western New England.