Things have really dried out. Most of us in SNE are coming up on 2 weeks with no rain . Granted with 6-8” of rain in August, we aren’t entering a drought quite yet. But the top few inches of soil is very dry now. I mowed today and the tractor was throwing a lot of dust into air in places . Many lawns are just starting to burn out again after a near 2 week dry spell, torch after torch and sun with no rain in sight . Amazing how we go from feast to famine . We seen to be in a repetitive pattern of dry autumns the last few years
The amount of dead Oaks along roads in many parts of town is insane. They just did a crush job in certain locations the last few years. There’s also ones this year that were not totally eaten , but all of them have turned brown . So I don’t know if that means they died or just done for season or maybe the humid summer contributed. Maybe Tamarac would know. But, I do not recall seeing any with brown leaves the last 2 summers like this one .
Quoted for posterity when your AC is humming into Oct and fam still out playing, you tipsy, leaves weeks late even though the valley is at peak now , and the nao and ao are raging hard positive. Got a long long long way to go to fall mi amigo
He lives in a little valley between hills and radiates . Those localized areas can always cool and drop dews due to oragraphics. Whereas Hill tops never cooled or dew downed
I remember years ago when you’d see beginnings of fall color and leaves fading from deep green to faded now. This year as in ones recently ,, there’s no color and everything is deep green like mid July. All over New England. Times have changed