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Fall Months

On It — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:52:54 GMT

As Fall is arriving in some parts of the country, what are your Fall months? When does winter take its grip?

The Earth has reached a position where the sunlight angle has changed. I think plants and wildlife respond as much to that as to the temperature. Here in New Mexico's mountains, Fall is in the air. September and October are decidedly Fall months. November is a toss up. The ski area tries to open Thanksgiving weekend. Many years ago we would have very cold weather in late November and Winter snows began. In more recent times, November has been milder and more Fall-like. Winter has held off until December.

Re: Fall Months

RetRN — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:58:36 GMT

I think that Sept. and Oct. are our fall months. It can get pretty cool in Nov. and we are guaranteed snow in Dec. Fall it by far our shortest season.

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SilleeMee — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:02:58 GMT

Here in Colorado our fall season is very short lived. I can tell it has already started with sun casting long shadows on my lawn and the sound of the leaves in the trees is sounding a bit different with them rustling rather than being more quite in the wind. Usually by the end of October there will be snowfall, not much but it comes around Halloween, it seems, every year.

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Kachina624 — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:06:45 GMT

@On It If I were you, I think I'd just stay in those New Mexico mountains rather than go home to Texas right now.

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ScrapHappy — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:10:28 GMT

I live in GA, about an hour north of Atlanta. It can still be warm, and sometimes hot, in October. I remember when we moved here 5 years ago and I took my daughter out for Halloween. We were sweating. She couldn't wait to get home and tear off that witch costume. I can get very cold here too. One winter it snowed and schools were closed for 3 days. I don't think they're used to it down here. Ha Ha. I look forward to the cooler months because it's just so hot and humid most of the time.

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On It — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:12:12 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@On It If I were you, I think I'd just stay in those New Mexico mountains rather than go home to Texas right now.

That is the best advice I have had in a long time. Texas is a train wreck on many, many fronts.

Re: Fall Months

MrsSB — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:32:52 GMT

Well going by the calendar, it's still Summer until September 22. Going by the thermometer, September was always the hottest month in California. Same for here in Hawaii.

And as for Winter, it doesn't start until December 21.

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Loves Purple — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:33:31 GMT

The state of Texas is definitely dry and hot into September. It's definitely NOT a train wreck by any means. But I'm sure a lot of us could name several other states that are train wrecks but this is not the place to make comments like that. You know what I mean.

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Foxxee — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:35:44 GMT

It went down to 53 last night in my area of the northeast. Low 70's this past week, high 70's next week, then a few days of low 80's, but cool in the evening.

It's been a very hot summer with too many days in the 90's, so this change has been a huge relief.

Temps here will jump up and down for a few weeks before they settle into cold. Winter coats around mid-November.

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wagirl — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:40:20 GMT

Here is WA state---fall is in the air--not many trees turning color yet but it's cooler at night. and really nice and warm but not hot during the day. Not much rain here since June tho--very unusual for here. Typical months of fall--Sept-Nov---Dec is wet and grey----trees are bare----

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qualitygal — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:43:33 GMT

I'd say for SW MI, Dec. for sure. A few years back, we had very little snow for the whole season. Less is better in my book.

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Marp — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:44:50 GMT

@ScrapHappy wrote:
I live in GA, about an hour north of Atlanta. It can still be warm, and sometimes hot, in October. I remember when we moved here 5 years ago and I took my daughter out for Halloween. We were sweating. She couldn't wait to get home and tear off that witch costume. I can get very cold here too. One winter it snowed and schools were closed for 3 days. I don't think they're used to it down here. Ha Ha. I look forward to the cooler months because it's just so hot and humid most of the time.

@ScrapHappy, I'm about an hour north of you and I too look forward to the cooler months for the same reason.

Last night we were supposed to start a brief break with temperatures dropping to the mid 50s. What a disappointment this morning. Yes, it was in the 50s but not the least bit refreshing. I'm sure you understand what I mean.

Re: Fall Months

beach-mom — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 04:56:23 GMT

For decorating purposes only,

Fall is SEP, OCT, NOV

Winter is DEC, JAN, FEB

Spring is MAR, APR, MAY

Summer is JUN, JUL, AUG

Now if the weather would just cooperate!

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izziebee — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 07:22:38 GMT

@beach-mom wrote:
For decorating purposes only,

Fall is SEP, OCT, NOV

Winter is DEC, JAN, FEB

Spring is MAR, APR, MAY

Summer is JUN, JUL, AUG

Now if the weather would just cooperate!

Agree! 😃

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decaf — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 08:35:28 GMT

Fall is December to January, winter is January to February. The other 9 months are just hot and humid here in Florida.

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Grade1Teach — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:34:05 GMT

I live on Long Island and although the calendar dates say one thing about the seasons, the actual weather says another.

September is usually a very warm month here. We don't usually feel true fall temps until mid-October. Even then it can be very sporadic. There have been many Halloween days when we were outside trick-or-treating either bundled up or in short sleeves and shorts. You never know which one it will be!

Winter will sometimes arrive here in December (with snow), but the truly cold temps don't come until January.

The weather patterns here seem to have shifted about a month later from what they used to be.

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CalminHeart — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 11:43:50 GMT

It will be in the 90s this week so it's still summer here.

We had snow in October last year and it went downhill from there. It was a bad winter. The Farmer's Almanac says we're supposed to be colder than usual and receive lots of snow this year. Ugh.

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gidgetgh — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:00:32 GMT

I live in Atlanta. Here, I consider true fall to be November.

Can you see the changes in light and a lowering of humidity before then? Sure. But in terms of leaves changing, it's usually early November.

True winter for us usually starts in January. Though I remember a 17 degree Christmas Day here one year and plenty of 70 degree Christmas days.

Winter can take all the time it needs to get here, in my opinion. The longer it takes to get here, the faster it's gone.

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Lipstickdiva — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:12:38 GMT

I'm in North Central Ohio so all I can say is, it depends. Our weather can change on a dime. We have had downright hot days in October and we've had 40's on Halloween. We've had snow flurries in October, sometimes November. A couple of years ago, I was outside washing my car the day after Thanksgiving because it was so warm and other years we've gotten significant snow on Thanksgiving.

The second weekend of October is always our last camping trip for the year and there have been years where we froze and last year we were in shorts and t-shirts.

Definitely central and southern Ohio have better Fall weather than we have.