Sunday Morning lows Sept 19th.

Sunday morning brought a very chilly morning to the area, The coldest morning since early May. Many places fell into the 30s, including a few locations in the southern area, This may have lead to some light patchy frosts in parts of Northern Polk/Barron Counties. The Northern part of the area was the hardest hit with frost, with some parts even having it’s first freeze of the season. It appears like all of Burnett and Washburn counties got a freeze or at least a widespread frost, with mid 30s with even one upper 20 degree low being reported there. The coldest station, Minong had a very chilly 29.F. The far southern parts of the area mainly South of highway 8 and West of Highway 53 remained completely frost free. Thin clouds moved into this area, preventing lows from falling too far, lows here in the upper 30s to low 40s. The warmest station was Hudson not shown above. The low was 45.F there.

The low temperature at my station was 39.F, which is the first time I’ve hit the upper 30s this fall season. There was no frost at my location. My yard, and in the open fields beyond my yard were frost free when I checked at 6AM. This means I will continue to count the days till my first fall frost. A thin layer of clouds moved in just in time late last night, this prevented the temperature from falling too far, thus stopping frost from forming!

Fall Color Report # 2

Fall color is slowing starting to increase across the area. All locations are now reporting at least some color expect for Hudson and Menomonie in St Croix and Dunn Counties, colors will continue to increase as we go through the next couple weeks, especially with this chilly weather and longer nights.

Ash tree color in my front yard Sept 18th

At my location, I officially report Little Color 14% change Color has really started to show most in Earlier changing trees like Ash and Maples, 1 of the 2 ashes in my yard above is starting to get nice color, I’ve also seen some beautiful color starting to develop on a few sugar maples in Clayton. Sumac has bright red colors, as well as shrubs planted along homes like Burning Bush. Late change trees like Oak, Birch, Poplar are holding strong in their summer green color, So for not things are mostly green expect for a few spots of color. It appears like were in for a beautiful season of color this year if we hold off from getting freezing temperatures!