The grownup word for this is “autumnal.” It’s getting dark earlier and it’s cooler at night, but midday is still in the 90s. Also the air smells like apples because my tree is laden with them - not quite ripe yet though.
@Kyeh My apple tree doesn’t properly ripen until October, fairly close to Halloween (give or take). I haven’t spent enough time around it this year to notice if it smells like apples, though. Maybe? I guess I should go check (but not right now).
@xobzoo Mine is right next to my house, plus my neighbors have several in their yard. The squirrels pick a lot of them and eat half and drop the rest on the ground, little jerks.
@Kyeh@xobzoo
Oh wow, lucky YOU! The smell of fresh apples sound delicious! I used to love it when my mom made applesauce!
My guys been growing a few weed plants since it’s become legal, his new hobby. This time of year when It’s just starting to bud the smell can be pretty strong, especially on a breezy day when standing down wind! I find it ironic that I like the smell of it so much since I can’t stand how smoking (or ingesting) it makes me feel!
Freshly cut grass is my #1 favorite smell!
@Lynnerizer@xobzoo The apples are a nice smell. The apples aren’t the best - very small and wormy, because I don’t spray the tree or anything. But I try to use some to make a cake or something.
I wouldn’t like the smell of pot, though - too skunky!
@Kyeh@xobzoo We have 3 semi-dwarf apple trees - two of them (“Braeburn” and “Mountain Rose”) ripen later in the fall; the other (“Pristine”) ripens earlier and is just about done for the season already. Those apples were very nice this year (pale golden skin, sweet-tart and juicy). We couldn’t quite keep up, so the deer enjoyed their share of the ones on the ground (but no squirrels).
@macromeh@xobzoo I’ve never heard of the latter two, but Braeburn is one of my favorite apples to buy - lucky you! Mine is an ancient tree, came with the house, and it looks like the Red Delicious variety but I’m not sure. I’m going to buy a fruit press this afternoon that was listed on Nextdoor. So maybe I can make apple juice!
@Kyeh@xobzoo Yeah, Braeburns are really good for both making pies and eating fresh.
I’ve made cider with the excess apples in the past (both alcoholic and non-) which was pretty popular, but I don’t think I’ll get around to it this year. (It was more fun when we did it as a family activity, but the kids are all grown and gone now.)
Sometimes we can some applesauce, but it seems like it does not get eaten very often for some reason.
@pakopako@xobzoo ideally the end of civilization won’t hurt too much if you are close enough to a ground zero location. If further away, yeah, not good.
Reminds me of an old thing about what are the last thoughts of a bug about to smash into your car? The winner was “Ooh, big and shiny!” We had a local forum for discussion of sometimes stupid topics like we do here. Nearly as dysfunctional. This was pre-internet days. Sometimes an adult in the room would have to jump in and flag NSFW or overly political stuff. Amazing, yes, in the 80’s there was already NSFW and overly-political. So don’t blame the internet; blame the humans!
@xobzoo Back in the early 1960s, during the Cuban missile crisis, I had the temerity to point out to my elementary school teacher that our location, which was not very far from the Miami international airport, could potentially be within the crater of a warhead that could be delivered by the missiles that were suspected to be in Cuba. Furthermore, the lack of an adequate radar net in South Florida meant that we would have no warning if that happened. But even if we did have warning, duck and cover wasn’t going to accomplish anything at all.
It’s been in the low 70’s during the day and goes down into the 50’s and 60’s at night. Right now it is 68 inside and I refuse to turn the heat on yet. So it’s kinda fallish where I am.
@heartny
Our temps are about the same, 69° right now at 1:22pm and down in the 50’s at night.
I STILL have the AC running 24/7! Lol… AND… I have a fan pointed in my direction!
My guests are given a nice fresh and cozy throw blanket when they arrive!
@edsa@pakopako would love that after record number of days using AC in a place that was supposed to be mostly cool and rainy.
But then there was Colorado in Winter
Today, totally fall-y. The rest of the week is back to summer. We will probably have actual fall in a month or so, for about a week, then we will have first winter.
Mother Nature has definitely gone off her meds…We (Fargo, ND) have had temperatures from the low 40s to 90+ in the last month…So yeah, Fall is definitely coming.
Upcoming week is highs in the 80’s all week. Sorta nice compared to what we know is coming all too soon!
Two weeks ago it was hot and humid. It was 58 degrees this morning with 40% humidity. I have oak trees. Lots of oak trees, with a bumper crop of acorns. The weather change is their signal to drop acorns. My house has a steel roof. It gives whole new shades of meaning to “fall weather” around here. I especially love the ones that fall from the top of the oak to the roof, bounce, roll, and then drop to the ground. The deer, squirrels, and my resident marmot family are all happily munching on the acorns. On balance, I much prefer the noise to the heat.
@rockblossom In our climate, we have what’s known as live oaks. They don’t lose their leaves in the winter, but they more than make up for it in their volume of acorn output. You can get a buildup of as much as 2 inches of the damn things under a tree. On the other hand, at least the acorns don’t blow around and get into everything. Of course, the live oaks shed leaves all year long, but they are smaller. And those get into everything even worse than the big ones.
@rockblossom@werehatrack For reasons that are lost in the mists of time, my wife planted a black walnut tree in our front yard. It is now 40-50 feet tall and drops a butt-load of walnuts on the lawn every fall. Unfortunately black walnuts, while nice shade trees that also make beautiful lumber, do not produce particularly tasty nuts (like English walnuts do). Even the local squirrels and chipmunks pass.
So there is a big mess to clean up every fall. Swell.
@macromeh Black walnut trees are technically self-fertile, but to get nuts worth the effort to harvest, they need a pollinator. My black walnut trees and hard-shell pecans are mostly ignored by wildlife simply because the shells are too hard to crack. They will eat them if they can get the shells open.
@ddbelyea@werehatrack As my niece (maybe about 30 at the time) answered something with I just don’t know how to respond to that!
My longest extended stay in Houston was in Winter season for a few months. A long time ago. But I remember driving in the rental car on Southwest Hwy a few weeks before Christmas. Stores had Christmas decorations up. Maybe some Christmas music on the radio. And needing windshield wipers (rain) and air-conditioning (still warm and humid).
@pmarin@werehatrack Yep. I live in South Florida but spend the summers in Northern Michigan. So I’ll usually be wearing a hoodie in July and then maybe not again until January…
@AuntEah I will note that the season called Mud can occur at multiple points during the year, but it only counts once. There is always a Mud between Winter and Spring.
@AuntEah@werehatrack I do like that it seems somewhat accurate (depending on region) and despite sensible (mostly) names has some fun stuff. I love Spring of Deception.
@AuntEah@pmarin The Illinois road department definitely segregates the year into two seasons, one of which is road work and the other of which is winter.
We had three nice cool days with overnights in the mid 40s.
The potato plant stalks are starting to brown and wilt
one of the carrots bolted and we missed it, so we’re starting to harvest the rest.
the squirrels and chipmunks are tearing up the tomato and pepper plants, taking bites out of each one they grab and leaving the rest.
A chipmunk was DIGGING IN MY POTATO BUCKETS so I shot it. (with a water hose but if it comes back…)
Our fall and halloween boxes came down from the attic
The summer decor got packed up and put in the attic.
The living room and porch now have autumn leaf garlands and tabletop ornaments
So we’re looking a bit like fall even though now its supposed to get hot again.
@PooltoyWolf I grew up in Miami. The only thing about winter that was routinely amazing was if one happened at all. My elementary school was built in the days prior to AC, and the heating system was via a steam boiler. It had apparently been rotted out for several years before they noticed during the year that the weather finally got chilly enough that the principal tried to fire it up. (I will note that I was still living in that area during The Great Mid-70’s Snowstorm in which Miami recorded half a dozen flakes. That was a distinct aberration. Nome had higher temps than Miami for two whole days.)
Coolest summer I remember in central and coastal Texas. (Thx to Hurricane Beryl I think)
Surely fewer than 10 days over 100F for the entire summer.
/giphy don’t call me Shirley
At night for the past 3-4 days it’s been in the 50’s. So wonderful.
I hope this lovely weather isn’t a predictor of a horrid winter. I haven’t check the Farmers Almanac to see that the insects are predicting for the next 6 months.
Unless you count monstrous wildfires that have their own weather systems fall I call it fail
9.8m/sec2 as usual
Unless you’re asking about seasons, in which case ask again in November.
@werehatrack damn physics jokes!
100 degrees plus.
Dude, it’s still summer. Still hot.
@PocketBrain Yep!
The grownup word for this is “autumnal.”
It’s getting dark earlier and it’s cooler at night, but midday is still in the 90s. Also the air smells like apples because my tree is laden with them - not quite ripe yet though.
@Kyeh My apple tree doesn’t properly ripen until October, fairly close to Halloween (give or take). I haven’t spent enough time around it this year to notice if it smells like apples, though. Maybe? I guess I should go check (but not right now).
@xobzoo Mine is right next to my house, plus my neighbors have several in their yard. The squirrels pick a lot of them and eat half and drop the rest on the ground, little jerks.
@Kyeh @xobzoo
Oh wow, lucky YOU! The smell of fresh apples sound delicious! I used to love it when my mom made applesauce!
My guys been growing a few weed plants since it’s become legal, his new hobby. This time of year when It’s just starting to bud the smell can be pretty strong, especially on a breezy day when standing down wind! I find it ironic that I like the smell of it so much since I can’t stand how smoking (or ingesting) it makes me feel!
Freshly cut grass is my #1 favorite smell!
@Lynnerizer @xobzoo The apples are a nice smell. The apples aren’t the best - very small and wormy, because I don’t spray the tree or anything. But I try to use some to make a cake or something.
skunky!
I wouldn’t like the smell of pot, though - too
@Kyeh @xobzoo We have 3 semi-dwarf apple trees - two of them (“Braeburn” and “Mountain Rose”) ripen later in the fall; the other (“Pristine”) ripens earlier and is just about done for the season already. Those apples were very nice this year (pale golden skin, sweet-tart and juicy). We couldn’t quite keep up, so the deer enjoyed their share of the ones on the ground (but no squirrels).
@macromeh @xobzoo I’ve never heard of the latter two, but Braeburn is one of my favorite apples to buy - lucky you! Mine is an ancient tree, came with the house, and it looks like the Red Delicious variety but I’m not sure. I’m going to buy a fruit press this afternoon that was listed on Nextdoor. So maybe I can make apple juice!
@Kyeh @xobzoo Yeah, Braeburns are really good for both making pies and eating fresh.
I’ve made cider with the excess apples in the past (both alcoholic and non-) which was pretty popular, but I don’t think I’ll get around to it this year. (It was more fun when we did it as a family activity, but the kids are all grown and gone now.)
Sometimes we can some applesauce, but it seems like it does not get eaten very often for some reason.
Right now or 50 degrees
@somf69 what’s it going to be like in 50 degrees?
@pakopako @somf69 50 degrees of Kevin Bacon?
Tasty? (Sorry)
/image Kevin bacon the lost pig
EDIT now I feel bad.
@pakopako @somf69 also 50° C not for me
I don’t know, are these Fall colors on the weather hazard map?
I made it until September 4th before I had a pumpkin spice thing. However, it has been 90+ all week so I can’t really get in the mood.
@xobzoo never hurts too have a plan for the end of civilization
@pakopako @xobzoo ideally the end of civilization won’t hurt too much if you are close enough to a ground zero location. If further away, yeah, not good.
Reminds me of an old thing about what are the last thoughts of a bug about to smash into your car? The winner was “Ooh, big and shiny!” We had a local forum for discussion of sometimes stupid topics like we do here. Nearly as dysfunctional. This was pre-internet days. Sometimes an adult in the room would have to jump in and flag NSFW or overly political stuff. Amazing, yes, in the 80’s there was already NSFW and overly-political. So don’t blame the internet; blame the humans!
@xobzoo Back in the early 1960s, during the Cuban missile crisis, I had the temerity to point out to my elementary school teacher that our location, which was not very far from the Miami international airport, could potentially be within the crater of a warhead that could be delivered by the missiles that were suspected to be in Cuba. Furthermore, the lack of an adequate radar net in South Florida meant that we would have no warning if that happened. But even if we did have warning, duck and cover wasn’t going to accomplish anything at all.
@xobzoo
/giphy Hamilton “oceans rise empires fall”
It’s been in the low 70’s during the day and goes down into the 50’s and 60’s at night. Right now it is 68 inside and I refuse to turn the heat on yet. So it’s kinda fallish where I am.
@heartny
AND… I have a fan pointed in my direction! 
Our temps are about the same, 69° right now at 1:22pm and down in the 50’s at night.
I STILL have the AC running 24/7! Lol…
My guests are given a nice fresh and cozy throw blanket when they arrive!
Highs are supposed to be sub-90f all week, so pretty much fall here
I see icicles outside my work window.
@pakopako
Where’s your work window?
@edsa @pakopako would love that after record number of days using AC in a place that was supposed to be mostly cool and rainy.
But then there was Colorado in Winter
Today, totally fall-y. The rest of the week is back to summer. We will probably have actual fall in a month or so, for about a week, then we will have first winter.
Mother Nature has definitely gone off her meds…We (Fargo, ND) have had temperatures from the low 40s to 90+ in the last month…So yeah, Fall is definitely coming.
Upcoming week is highs in the 80’s all week. Sorta nice compared to what we know is coming all too soon!
Two weeks ago it was hot and humid. It was 58 degrees this morning with 40% humidity. I have oak trees. Lots of oak trees, with a bumper crop of acorns. The weather change is their signal to drop acorns. My house has a steel roof. It gives whole new shades of meaning to “fall weather” around here. I especially love the ones that fall from the top of the oak to the roof, bounce, roll, and then drop to the ground. The deer, squirrels, and my resident marmot family are all happily munching on the acorns. On balance, I much prefer the noise to the heat.
@rockblossom My apple tree does that, with help from the squirrels, because some branches hang over my roof. At least it’s not a metal roof!
@rockblossom In our climate, we have what’s known as live oaks. They don’t lose their leaves in the winter, but they more than make up for it in their volume of acorn output. You can get a buildup of as much as 2 inches of the damn things under a tree. On the other hand, at least the acorns don’t blow around and get into everything. Of course, the live oaks shed leaves all year long, but they are smaller. And those get into everything even worse than the big ones.
@rockblossom @werehatrack For reasons that are lost in the mists of time, my wife planted a black walnut tree in our front yard. It is now 40-50 feet tall and drops a butt-load of walnuts on the lawn every fall. Unfortunately black walnuts, while nice shade trees that also make beautiful lumber, do not produce particularly tasty nuts (like English walnuts do). Even the local squirrels and chipmunks pass.
So there is a big mess to clean up every fall. Swell.
@macromeh Black walnut trees are technically self-fertile, but to get nuts worth the effort to harvest, they need a pollinator. My black walnut trees and hard-shell pecans are mostly ignored by wildlife simply because the shells are too hard to crack. They will eat them if they can get the shells open.
Need a Florida option of: “Hot and humid enough that the premise of this question makes me angry”
@ddbelyea BTDT, moved to Houston for the cool, dry climate and the wonderful change of seasons …
I Am Not Kidding About This.
@ddbelyea @werehatrack As my niece (maybe about 30 at the time) answered something with I just don’t know how to respond to that!
My longest extended stay in Houston was in Winter season for a few months. A long time ago. But I remember driving in the rental car on Southwest Hwy a few weeks before Christmas. Stores had Christmas decorations up. Maybe some Christmas music on the radio. And needing windshield wipers (rain) and air-conditioning (still warm and humid).
@ddbelyea @pmarin Well, yes, but that could be Miami in January.
@pmarin @werehatrack Yep. I live in South Florida but spend the summers in Northern Michigan. So I’ll usually be wearing a hoodie in July and then maybe not again until January…
We are currently in glorious False Fall. Summer is not gone, but we have hopes.
@AuntEah I will note that the season called Mud can occur at multiple points during the year, but it only counts once. There is always a Mud between Winter and Spring.
@AuntEah @werehatrack I do like that it seems somewhat accurate (depending on region) and despite sensible (mostly) names has some fun stuff. I love Spring of Deception.
@AuntEah @werehatrack The far-North version I heard many years ago was much simpler
[Edit I fixed a typo about “herd” and now regret changing it since must have been the goat thing coming through]
@AuntEah @pmarin The Illinois road department definitely segregates the year into two seasons, one of which is road work and the other of which is winter.
Its beginning to look a bit like fall.
We had three nice cool days with overnights in the mid 40s.
The potato plant stalks are starting to brown and wilt
one of the carrots bolted and we missed it, so we’re starting to harvest the rest.
the squirrels and chipmunks are tearing up the tomato and pepper plants, taking bites out of each one they grab and leaving the rest.
A chipmunk was DIGGING IN MY POTATO BUCKETS so I shot it. (with a water hose but if it comes back…)
Our fall and halloween boxes came down from the attic
The summer decor got packed up and put in the attic.
The living room and porch now have autumn leaf garlands and tabletop ornaments
So we’re looking a bit like fall even though now its supposed to get hot again.
@duodec in North Carolina the wild turkeys were out, pecking at my neighbor’s compost pile. Not sure what; we think tasty delicious bugs.
@duodec @pmarin Worms, maybe.
@duodec @Kyeh @pmarin Roaches that have slowed with the temp sag, but haven’t yet burrowed into hiding.
@duodec
/youtube Alvin and the chipmunks
It’s Florida, so still very much the middle of summer. Sweltering with the occasional torrential downpour. Hurry up, fall!
@PooltoyWolf oh, come on, be honest. The two seasons down there are summer and less sweltery summer.
@werehatrack Winter here is amazing.
@PooltoyWolf I grew up in Miami. The only thing about winter that was routinely amazing was if one happened at all. My elementary school was built in the days prior to AC, and the heating system was via a steam boiler. It had apparently been rotted out for several years before they noticed during the year that the weather finally got chilly enough that the principal tried to fire it up. (I will note that I was still living in that area during The Great Mid-70’s Snowstorm in which Miami recorded half a dozen flakes. That was a distinct aberration. Nome had higher temps than Miami for two whole days.)
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Yesterday. Been a week - heat advisory is supposed to be over tomorrow evening.
The bottom.one is in our dining room.
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Still summer here, mid to high 90’s. But that’s supposed to break in a couple of days.
Coolest summer I remember in central and coastal Texas. (Thx to Hurricane Beryl I think)
Surely fewer than 10 days over 100F for the entire summer.
/giphy don’t call me Shirley
At night for the past 3-4 days it’s been in the 50’s. So wonderful.
I hope this lovely weather isn’t a predictor of a horrid winter. I haven’t check the Farmers Almanac to see that the insects are predicting for the next 6 months.