Fall Color
While there is some spotty good color on the drive between Grand Rapids and the Bay City area the “official” reports are that the color is still a week or two away yet. I am sure that some of the color may even be later than that. But that said the trees that turn yellow there seems to be a lot of them that have turned already and in the Bay area even some of the Maples have turned red and there is some leaf fall as well. Here is the latest for the UP for anyone who wants to take a drive up that way
Upper Peninsula
Chippewa County. 60-70% color change. Peak fall color expected the first and second week in October.
Luce County: 50-60% color change . Peak fall color expected the second week in October.
Mackinac County: 40-50% color change. Peak fall color expected the second week in October.
Schoolcraft County: 40-60% color change. Peak fall color expected the first and second week in October.
Alger County: 70%-at near peak color change.
Delta County: 65%-at near peak color change
Dickinson County: 65& at near color change.
Marquette County: 75%-at peak color change
Menominee County: 55%-at color change. . Peak fall color expected the first and second week in October.
Baraga County: 80% to at peak color change
Gogebic & Ontonagon past peak color change
Houghton & Keweenaw 80% at peak color change
Iron County: past peak color change
The above was the report as of October 7th
I am not sure how the do the estimates of the % of color, but my guess is that in Bay County it is in the 30 to 40% range.
Slim
Pretty much the only color here is green and brown from the stressed trees from lack of rain. Although the vines/ivy have mostly changed color. We’ll be raking in November and mowing into December again this year.
There was some spotty very heavy rain fall yesterday. Here at my house I recorded 1.48″ of rain fall and there was some street flooding in the area in a heavy down pour in the afternoon. At GRR a new record rain fall amount of 1.00″ was reported that broke the old record of 0.96″ in 1994. The first 8 days of October 2021 have been very warm and the mean for October is now at 65.6 and that is a departure of +9.7°. There was a lot of fog earlier but it has now became less foggy here. The… Read more »
That’s a pretty wild departure from average. Be one thing if we were a day or 2 into the month, but with almost a third of the month gone and not much change in the coming weeks, it will be hard to bring that number down a whole lot.
We saw quite a lot of sun yesterday with a warm 75 degrees and a low of 60. Rainfall was .65 of an inch which brings us to 1.62 for the month.