Was noticing yesterday quite a few splashes of fall colour showing on the red and Norway maples commonly planted as street trees in Vancouver. Seems early. Hoping for a sudden cool spell in a week or two. That, plus how this summer wasn’t a total torchfest and did feature occasional rainy spells, would spell a good fall colour season.
I believe 6/28/21 and 6/29/21 were more anomalous in the areas affected than anything that happened on the plains in the 30s (although the ND 121F was probably about on par with June 2021), but the 30s heat waves were much more prolonged.
I vote to let him back in and for some people to get thicker skin or block him individually if they can’t deal with it and need a safe space. We’re all adults, I think…..
weird about leaves. we're late over here, at least in my yard trees are just now starting to hint yellow and red (Birch and Maple). I suspect the extremely warm Fall to this point because my yard is well irrigated so not drought stress on these guys