"As temperatures warm, the fall season has been delayed.
Delayed fall foliage
One of the most obvious changes to occur in the fall, of course, is that the leaves of deciduous trees change color. For the trees, the purpose of this process is to retrieve nutrients from the leaves before they fall to the ground. For people, it’s big business, with foliage-related tourism worth billions of dollars in New England alone.
As the climate has warmed during the past few decades, the onset of fall colors across much of the Northern Hemisphere has been delayed. In the eastern United States, fall foliage arrives an average of two weeks late compared to the 1980s and 1990s, said Yingying Xie, an ecologist at Northwestern University, in an interview with my colleague Erika Street Hopman." ～Sara Peach @YaleClimateConnections
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