Warm, windy and humid with a moody, overcast dusk and a dip in temperatures. The last of fall is brassy, with dull copper tones, dashes of burnt orange and sienna in the half-empty brush. Apples hang in abundance on bare trees like winter ornaments: a forgotten, wild harvest.
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Another blazing autumn day with a high of 80F, hazy sunshine and steady breeze.
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A high of 67F and balmy with clear skies.
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This year, the vibrant, yellow fall hues stole the show very early on, at the end of September, and kept their lead throughout the month of October. Golden confetti lay strewn across roads and fields for weeks. The yellows were still in the lead until the reds popped into the mix, but they remain sparse, dull and muted. Some green, on mighty oak trees, still remained as of Monday, when our Daily Catskills coverage unexpectedly withered, shriveling up like our unpicked apples that hang forlornly in the bare trees like forgotten holiday decorations. Some tall oaks on the peaks are still hanging onto their vivid green, but they too are turning golden yellow.
The oranges came out in the last week or two, but they’re dusty and subdued; burnt orange, sienna and burnished copper tones linger amidst the brush.
Temperatures this fall have been about 10 degrees (fahrenheit) higher than last year. We were expecting a glorious, riotous autumn like the spectacular, fiery orange fall we had two years ago, but instead we had kind of warm, extended summer. Summer has stolen our autumn.
Go back in time through Upstate Dispatch’s archives from October 2015 and October 2016 so see just how different it is this year. After all, that’s why we take a picture a day.
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Humid, mostly sunny with passing cloud and a high of 73F.
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A high of 75F and humid with clear skies and the odd fluffy cloud. Fall is remarkably muted with none of the glorious, fiery colors of last year. This year’s temperatures are about ten degrees higher, which could be the reason for the dull color.
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A 62F high, nippy in the shade, but pleasant in the sun. This year’s Fall not half as exciting as the local trout from the Beaverkill on the menu at Peekamoose.
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A chilly morning, with the day’s high at 60F, breezy with hazy cloud.
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A high of 70F, humid and overcast with hazy, foggy cloud that brought late afternoon rain.
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75F, humid, sunny with hazy cloud, lazy breeze, blazing fall colors.
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71F by mid-morning, humid, with patches of morning fog and occasional turbulent breeze scattering the leaves. Surly. Update: 77F high with a strong, leaf-churning wind and more rain.
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80F, very humid and overcast with forbidding cloud that dulls the vibrant, new oranges that accompany the reds. Sultry.
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77F by mid-afternoon, humid with rippled clouds and hazy sunshine. Oranges bloom amongst the reds.
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A cloudy, moody start, with a mix of sun and cloud throughout the afternoon. A high of 72F. Vivid reds bloom in the landscape.
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Morning cloud dispersed by the afternoon. Sunny with a cool breeze with a high of 73F. A significant reddening of the landscape overnight. Fall seems to have begun in earnest.
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Clear skies and a 75F high. Warm in the sun, but cool in the shade. Humid and slightly steamy. Fall is slightly late out of the gate.
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A clear, frosty morning, rising to a high of 67F. Initial muted dashes of red amidst the yellowing. Fall has yet to show its true colors.
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After an overnight frost dissolving into a misty morning, 70F by mid-afternoon and sunny.
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After a foggy start, 60F by mid-afternoon and warm in the sun.
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Dark, gloomy with hovering fog. A plunge into the chilly mid-fifties. Got wood?
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58F by 6.30am, balmy with clear skies and sunrise ushering in dappled cloud. 65F by mid-afternoon.
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60F by 7am with fog receding quickly into the valley. Balmy autumn mornings. Update: another 90F scorcher. Bikini weather.
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A high of 85F with morning fog disappearing into the mountains. Sunny with scant cloud. The sunflowers express how we feel about summer ending.
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A high of 90F, blazing hot and humid.
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A high of 84F with clear skies of hazy blue. Sunday scorcher.
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A high of 80F with scanty cloud and warm in the sun. Happy Autumnal Equinox! The first day of Fall.
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An 80F high, humid and bright despite hazy clouds, with a faint breeze.
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A high of 80F, humid and overcast with late afternoon sun emerging. Summer’s rolling to a steamy end.
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Hot in the sun with hazy sunshine, with a cool breeze ushering the fall and a high of 82F. These last few days of summer end on Thursday. Fall begins on Friday with the Autumnal Equinox.
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Another balmy morning at 65F with the blazing sun chasing fog into the valleys. A high of 82F, hot in the sun with a cool breeze, like summer wants another chance.
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A foggy start to the day, rising to 83F and scorching in the sun until the storm clouds sailed through with a mini-storm. Sunburn one minute; a thorough soaking the next. This year’s fall is more like a fade… a draining of color from vivid green to yellow. The forest floor is carpet of brown and yellow.
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A balmy morning at 65F by 9am. The morning fog rolled away to reveal trees, bushes, forest floor and fields liberally bestrewn with lacy spiders’ webs, as if the forest had been dressed for halloween overnight.
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Another moody day: a high of 79F, muggy and sweaty with sultry, stormy clouds and distant rain over Slide Mountain. Mother natures continues to flick red splotches into her green canvas.
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A high of 75F, humid and overcast with scene-stealing, multifarious clouds leading to isolated showers and a balmy evening. Dashes of red appearing on the landscape like hot pepper seasoning. Moody.
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Another chilly misty morning warming up to 82F and sunny with a hazy cloud transforming into ominous, grey armada that issued early evening rain.
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79F by mid-afternoon and sunny with hazy cloud. Cool in the shade. Splashes of red dot the landscape.
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A high of 74F, warm in the hazy sunshine, but chilly in the shade. Wild leeks, the infamous “ramps”, issue their unique seeds, like tiny, opaque spheres of shimmering onyx.
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A high of 65F, alternating sunshine and cloud, all swept through by a strong breeze.
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Cloudy, overcast and soggy after overnight rain with a high of 57F and some late afternoon sun. Squash blossoms.
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Hot, sunny with faint whispers of cloud and a high of 75F. A glorious Labor Day.
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Rainy and 61F by mid-afternoon with swirling mist and more rain.
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A morning of warming sun smothered by clouds late afternoon with a 70F high. A chilly harvest.
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A chilly high of 67F, with the sun straining to break through multifarious clouds, gusty winds and a lunchtime shower. August almost goes out with a whimper to the sound of a thousand wood stoves firing up, but the sun comes out at the last minute and turns the clouds into a milky glaze.
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80F and brilliantly sunny with few scudding clouds and a strong, cooling breeze. Very hot in the sun and nippy in the shade. Goldenrod season.
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A chilly morning, with a high of 59F and overcast with afternoon rain. Summer’s got the blues.
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A high of 72F and overcast with periods of sunshine. Crisp overnight lows and chilly mornings.
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After another overnight low of 45F, a high of 74F and sunny with wispy cloud. Hot in the sun; cool in the shade.
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Another high in the low 70s, warm and sunny. Monarchs munch the milkweed.
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A 70F high and sunny with a distinct chill in the air. A little taster of Autumn.
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72F and mostly sunny with billowing clouds. A warm breeze in the hemlocks.
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After heavy overnight rain, a high of 76F with an armada of clouds sailing through the blue. The wild, post-rain proliferation of mushrooms continues in the cool shade of a hemlock forest.
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81F by mid-afternoon and humid, with cloud sailing over the hazy mountains through a sky of swimming pool blue.
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Another gorgeous misty morning, humid with wisps of cloud. 81F by mid-afternoon, mostly sunny and breezy with rippled cloud obscuring the solar eclipse.
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80F by mid-afternoon, hot and sunny.
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80F by mid-afternoon with the ubiquitous, scene-stealing clouds and an epidemic of post-rain mushrooms.
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