Posted by: me

The early-turning trees around our village are showing their first colour.

So, this is really ramping up. The word around our county is that the colour-changing has begun early this year. I heard a lady quipping at the pool the other day that the trees are fed up with the hot, dry summer (as are we), and decided to revolt.

Often our colour peak is nicely past Canadian Thanksgiving (second weekend in October); other times it lands right on Thanksgiving. This year we are wondering if it may even be just before.

We have a family trip coming up over Thanksgiving weekend in the beautiful Québec Laurentian mountains, and, I tell ya', the colour peak there is beautiful beyond words (see photo below - not mine). We have been to Vermont a number of times, and the views are stunningly similar.  ♥

The temps warm up here a bit mid-week to the mid-20s Celsius / 77F, but thankfully they don't stay there long. Back down to late teens or 20C by the week's end. And nighttime temperatures will be ranging from 5-12C / 41-53F, really lovely for sleeping!

We have a bit of rain in the forecast for tomorrow, but then nothing for the next week, which is concerning, as we are still far behind what we should have had. Thankfully any 'heat waves' are now in the past, so at least we are not dealing with high heat and humidity as well. 

This is a sample of what we have to look forward to ...  

Looks lovely! I really do admire a good Autumnal landscape! 😀 

Well here in my part of England it has been raining almost non-stop today. As soon as the month changed to September, so did the temperature, by quite a bit.

Apparently some more rain is coming to my area this week, but overall we're enjoying a lot of spring sunshine and a lot of canola fields are basking in the sunshine.  

Rain is also expected in our area beginning tomorrow. That's good since it's been dry recently.

It's mid-September and autumn is in the air. The days are shortening very fast (we're losing over three minutes of daylight every day) and some leaves are beginning to change color.

The problem is that the rest of the weather hasn't received the memo. We've had over a week of extremely warm, near-record temperatures and high humidity. Today's high will be 90F/32C - really unusual this late in the season. And with dew points also high, it's "air you can wear" out there. I just might hide in the air conditioning until the snow flies. 😉

Since my last post a couple of weeks ago, we've had an incredible stretch of really nice weather - crystal clear blue skies, low humidity, no wildfire smoke, and temperatures ranging from around 55F/13C at night and around 75F/24C by day. It will get a little warmer this upcoming week.

The leaves are starting to change, especially north of here. Our peak color will be in the next 10 days or so.

Local meteorologists are running out of superlatives to describe this nice weather - probably the nicest of the entire year so far (earlier this summer we had similar weather but intense smoke to go with it kept people indoors).

It's been great, enjoying the night sky with few mosquitoes and otherwise ideal conditions.

@stargazer our weather also seems unsure of 'what to put on' . This week gave us two of the warm, windy days that are followed by a cold change with rain. So I've managed to get all my laundry done and dry on the washing line, and still enjoyed snuggling into my woolly jerseys. I'm relishing any days I can have bare arms, and get some Vitamin D (and colour in my freckles), as I'll be the northern hemisphere in a month, where it'll be autumn.