14 October 2023
In October Pennsylvania’s Division Conservation and Herbal Sources produces a weekly Fall Colour File with photographic samples from across the state. They promise this week will probably be colourful within the Northern Tier however we’re handiest getting began in southwestern PA. The autumn colour exception is Somerset County the place top elevation creates a cooler local weather.
As you’ll see, Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park continues to be most commonly inexperienced …
… even though a couple of maples are converting colour.
The reddest maples are fast to drop their leaves so the most important colours are nonetheless inexperienced and yellow.
Some plant life and culmination upload a dash of colour.
However for in reality beautiful crimson and orange the day past’s break of day used to be the most efficient.
“Pink sky at morn, sailors forewarn” got here true with these days’s all-day rain.
(pictures via Kate St. John, map from PA DCNR with hyperlink within the caption)