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Leave It To the Heat to Dull Autumn's Glory (wsj.com)
It's autumn. Somebody tell the trees. From a report: Ordinarily, two signals alert deciduous trees that it's time to relinquish the green hues of summer in favor of autumn's yellows, oranges and reds. First, the days begin to grow shorter. Second, the temperature begins to drop. But this year, unseasonably warm weather across most of the U.S. has tricked trees into delaying the onset of fall's color extravaganza. Temperatures in the eastern half of the country have been as much as 15 degrees above normal since mid-September, and the warmth is expected to persist through the end of October. The unfortunate result for leaf peepers is a lackluster fall. Two kinds of pigments produce the season's liveliest foliage. Carotenoid, responsible for yellows and oranges, is always present in leaves but is usually masked by chlorophyll. The initial trigger for its appearance is shorter days. Anthocyanin, responsible for reds and deep purples, is different. Not all deciduous trees have this pigment, and those that do manufacture it from scratch in the fall. The primary trigger for its appearance is lower temperatures. Without that cooling cue, the colors of maple and other species that generally ignite New England with brilliant reds this time of year are likely to fizzle.
Seems slightly non tech related.
Remember, global warming is based on the global average temperature. This is regional and is on the timescale of weather rather than climate. During the same time period, temperatures might be below normal in Canada or Eurasia. It would be incorrect to blame this on global warming because this is on a regional scale and it would conflate weather with climate.
Is that 15 degrees Delisle, Leiden or Rankine?
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Where I live it's been seasonable but dry for the past month. In my experience, that has had more of an affect on leaf colors.
Colorado mountains this year actually had a somewhat early year for fall color, which was then sadly messed with near peak by weeks of cold rain/snow - it left a lot of the colors pretty muted as well (lots of moisture seems to bring out a lot of mold that causes black spots on the leaves).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Make autumn start at the end of October then. People are over thinking this.
Seems to me that explaining the world around us is of interest to nerds.
Not all "news for nerds" has to be "here's the latest update about Ruby on Rails implementation on Ubuntu run on a Raspberry Pi to mine bitcoin."
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So? We'll get there eventually one way or another. Does it matter to anyone exactly when this'll happen?
It has indeed been a wonderful warm fall. They happen sometimes and we enjoy falls like this. I'm willing to give up a little bright color for a longer growing season and gentler weather. Realize that global warming isn't all bad. Those of us in the northern climes benefit.
TFA is pure bullshit. Trees do not use temperature as an indicator of when to drop leaves. It is purely a solar metric. Once there is no longer enough sunlight for the leaves to produce as much energy as they consume, the trees cut them off, they die, and fall to the ground.
Temperature has nothing to do with it. Trees are smarter than we give them credit for.
What is causing the lack of a beautiful show is that, sometimes, there is a lack of a beautiful show. In particular, there has been less cloud cover this year compared to the normal, so leaves have lasted longer than they typically do. The rate of change of the length of day is at a maximum at the autumnal equinox, so when there is below average cloud cover, leaves will last longer, but with the days becoming rapidly shorter, they will fall off faster, and we don't get a big show.
I'll have to agree with whoever it is who said that this isn't actually political.
It was pointing out the connection between the muted tree colors and the unseasonably warm weather in New England. Nowhere was climate change or greenhouse warming mentioned. if you think any discussion about warm weather is a political statement about climate change, that is something about you brought to the discussion, not inherent in the original post.
I notice that the original article was Wall Street Journal, which hasn't been a big " propagandize climate change religion" source-- if anything, they are the opposite, tending to downplay climate change.
Or, to misquote Freud, "sometimes a leaf is just a leaf."
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Instead of moving it to within a few weeks of Winter Solstice they should have moved it the other way. Or gotten rid of it all together. Then the Sun would come up later and it wouldn't be so warm.
I've got a maple with four different colors on it right now. The one next to it is 100% burgundy and it's been that color for almost two weeks. The one next to that is green, like nothing is going on. WTF are these people talking about?
More media bullshit.
I have to believe it's both. Fruit trees (e.g. apples) depend on a certain number of cold days before they are ready to break dormancy. Maple trees start pumping sap in the Spring when the temperature is right (warm days and cold nights).
Something something irrefutable proof! No not enough data! But but questionably funded study! I want to believe! I will stand firm in the face of all facts!
I lied, it's more like this:
A: My position is clearly the correct one, and all who do not hold it are imbeciles.
B: My position is clearly the correct one, and all who do not hold it are imbeciles.
At least they can agree on something.
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Seriously? So we have NEVER, EVER experienced a 'delayed fall'? even 'no fall' (where the leaves are green & fall off as Winter comes storming in)...The point is that this is a 'single occurrence/even't and the GW advocates keep telling everyone that 'no single event/occurrence is evidence', this is usually pulled out when someone points out that in THEIR area of the country its been 'unseasonably cold' that's "proving GW isn't occurring". Now, I happen to believe this is true, no SINGLE event 'proves or disapproves GW' as that single event is about weather NOT climate. But what is 'good for the goose is good for the gander', so you can't have it both ways.
Now, as it turns out, the summary doesn't say anything about the 'unseasonably warm weather' being linked to GW, and I don't have a Wall Street Journal account to read the full article, so I will assume YOU are the one trying to connect this to GW, and attempting to claim something that hasn't been claimed, in which case you should just stop.
Shit happens, warm weather occurs and has before such that the leaves don't turn colors to make for a 'beautiful fall'...get over it.
Even *trees* have more sex than you, Chris! But I guess they do it with bees, and we know your history with bees...
"Buy time to be an allergy sufferer with massive pollen in the spring and fire smoke in the fall."
More crammar, Chris? Put some effort into your comments, maybe then you'll have one sockpuppet with neutral karma... Or you can post Anonymous Cashew.
OK, so now lackluster fall colors are the fault of global warming?
Funny, driving the last couple of weeks through MN, and I thought the colors were particularly vibrant this year. In fact, I've commented aloud that it's like being in a Bob Ross painting.
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The idea that one warm autumn is anything unusual is nuts.
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I grew up and lived in the North East and I have to say this, fall is the most overrated season ever which then allows us to be greeted by the worst season ever Winter.
Let's list why fall stinks:
1. It's the end of summer. Thank goodness the traditionally fall months are hot, but instead of a gradual weather change, it's now hot hot hot and then freezing cold. I'll take having a few extra months of hot weather before the frigid cold and ice sets in.
2. High fall, ie the time when the leaves are the most colorful, only lasts at best 2 weeks. You have beautiful lush green forests, then red, brown orange, colorful forests, and then barren brown. It will remain barren and brown until mid-April/ early May. LAME!
3. Seeing Christmas decorations, ads, and every worst aspect of the holiday season hit three months before the actual event. I wish someone would write a law that says Christmas can't be advertised or appear at all until the end of Thanksgiving.
4. And the realization that winter is upon us. Every time I hear someone say they look forward to snow fall, I want to punch them in the face. Snow means freezing cold as I walk to the bus stop, snow means slushy $hit everywhere I walk, snow means spending time outside moving the crap around, snow means rusting vehicles, stale indoor air, obnoxiously heavy clothing, expensive heating oil bills, and maybe if i'm lucky there will be enough of the crap to force a work from home day. Maybe if winter disappeared immediately after New Years and spring began I would be happier, but no. You have to power through the crap for at least three more months.
The only redeeming thing about winter are the sports. Thankfully, I've since relocated to a locale where the weather is hot and sunny 24/7 and it's possible for me to drive 2-3 hours to ski resorts packed with snow. Get my fix, and then drive back to a tropical paradise.
Preach! Everyone knows GW is nothing more than Big Rake attempting to muscle in on Big Snow Shovel marketshare! #MAGA
Leave it to the WSJ to run this story on the same day a huge cold front moved through the northeastern US.
I swear they would run the article: "despite liberal cries, sky not actually blue" if their analytics software indicated they'd get a higher-than-average troll-response from it.
7-10 days after first frost is usually color peak. We're a little late, but it'll happen.
I didnâ(TM)t pump all of this fucking coal smog into the atmosphere for nothing you goddamn commies! This is the Autumn America CHOSE as the people - warm and unseasonable! Stop crying about a mild autumn and go join a liberal arts program! MAGA PRESIDENT TRUMP!!
I'm from Ohio, and I'm about 50 years old.
When I was a kid I used to go skiing. My parents would take me. We have a few local ski resorts, dinky little places. Boston Mills and Brandywine. Nothing much really. Basically a few ski lifts and a couple of hills not far from where the Cleveland Cavaliers used to play - the old Richfield Colosseum off route 303.
And the skiing wasn't bad. Nobody would mistake it for Veil Colorado, but it wasn't bad.
Now I'm older and you know what? It doesn't really snow in Ohio much anymore. I have two kids now. I really wanted to teach them how to ski and...I can't. We never get enough snow. Each resort these days will make artificial snow enough to keep one or two hills open, but it's basically an ice flow. You're not skiing, you're skating.
When I was a kid you'd see an occasional flurry in October. I once went trick-or-treating in the snow. Show would pick up through November and by Christmas we would have a few feet of snow that would last through February.
Now? It's too sporadic to build up a base to ski on. It'll snow, but then go up to 55 or 60 degrees and it all melts, then drop down to the mid 30s and hang for a week. Then drop to zero and snow. Then back up into the 50's. We never get anything worth skiing on. If we get a big snow it'll last for maybe a week or so. Enough to maybe go sledding on, but by the next week it's slush.
I don't give a crap about politics.
What I do know is that I used to have snow here, and now I don't.
It's annoying when you have to bundle up for Halloween, but this October has been actually *hot*. I've thought about turning the AC on again in the last couple of weeks. Usually I can go without heating or AC from about March to June, then again from about September to mid November. It is a hot year.
> Temperatures in the eastern half of the country have been as much as 15 degrees above normal
Holy FS! I thought it was just me. We needed heat and aircon on the same day earlier this month.
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half the trees in [downtown] dallas never even dropped their leaves from last year. we had at most 3 or 4 days where you had to wear a jacket.
The trees know what's up. They just aren't set to our timetables. The trees do what the trees want, Holmes, just like the rest of us.
Imagine discovering that your grandparents were into wife swapping with some of their close friends and you discover that after your grandfather passed your incontinent grandmother started spending whole afternoons getting comfort from this other widow.
My grandparents were Mormon. I don't have to imagine.
It's called La Niña. It's happened before, and it will happen again. Nothing new here, just somebody who doesn't know any better panicking and setting other people off. #fakenews
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But when I know my girlfriend is going to spend the weekend, I refrain
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Jesus christ it's sad that a literal retard can make nearly 60k in Silicon Valley. You should quit your job and start advocating for tards in tech like a disabled zoe quinn. You'll probably make more money for easier work.
So we have NEVER, EVER experienced a 'delayed fall'?
Sure we have. And we use to be able to have them without all media hysteria about climate warming and global change and stuff.
Fall happens early? CLIMATE CHANGE!111. Fall happens late? CLIMATE CHANGE1!!. Trump did it you stupid denier!
Did you misspell 'Arrhenius', or were you unaware that the theory of AGW predates An Inconvenient Truth by 11 decades?
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
I remember when I was a kid, and the glacier near my house lost twenty cubic miles of ice in ten years. The number of frost-free days in Fairbanks has doubled since 1950. Glacial ice loss has been most noticeable from the lower alpine and tidewater glaciers, which would be the most accessible and visible ones. I believe we're up to about fifty cubic kilometers per year for the state overall.
You can walk it back to people who live in places you care about, but there are any number of statistics to show that the Arctic at least is melting like gangbusters.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
Leaves normally begin changing color in the middle of October into November. Autumn ends December 21st. Everything is perfectly normal this year, a few individuals are seeing some localized phenomenon due to wildfires or storms in their local area.
You're actually making it more difficult for the center leaning right to have civil discourse.
I'd actually like to hear more from the center-leaning right. The far-right is completely drowning out the discourse (and for that matter, I'd be interested in hearing more from the center-leaning left.)
And you're not alone, nearly all the people are polarized and the TrueLeft and True Right just can't believe what the center leaning on either side are talking about, that the opposition may have certain points worth discussing or that their argument is more nuanced than it is made out to be.
Agree! Most of what passes for political discourse these days seems to be false dichotomy: if you're not far left, you must be fascist right / If you're not far right, you must be Stalinist left.
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