Tip has had good posts about how the past few years, overall, have featured a very fast flow in the N Hemisphere jet streams. Thus we have a lot of systems getting “shredded” and a lack of good timing with N/S stream phasing of storms.
Even without elevation looks like we at least coat the ground here. With plenty of yard work left to do whitening the ground is all I need at this point.
So strange, our oak tree is really healthy but more than half the leaves are down already and usually they don’t all fall until December. Meanwhile the Norway maples are just changing colors this week.
It has been an absolutely epic foliage season around here this year! Long and strong.