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Originally Posted by flatbutt

It's a strange fall so far. Many trees have leaves that are turning brown and falling rather than the usual brilliant colors.

It looks like leaf scorch but it has been plenty wet up here.

How about you all? Are you getting the pretty colors?

We sometimes get a little bit of color here. Most of our color comes from Chinese Tallow trees which are invasive. We have some maples, and depending upon how our weather turns, we may get a little color out of them. But most often what I've seen in maples here is - We'll have nice warm weather in the 80s and 90s, and then a cold front will come in that will drop the weather into the 40s, and that cold front and going from "hot" to "cold" essentially over night will cause the maples to drop their leaves almost completely within 24 hours. We had a maple, and I remember one time in particular, it got cold over night. When I woke up the leaves were green and a little yellow, and by that evening, almost every leaf was brown and 75% of them had dropped. I think one year that we had it, did we get a bit more color over a little more time.