[HN Gopher] 2022 Fall Foliage Prediction Map
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2022 Fall Foliage Prediction Map
Author : nkurz
Score : 42 points
Date : 2022-09-27 12:02 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (smokymountains.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (smokymountains.com)
| whalesalad wrote:
| Anyone in Michigan wanna rent an Airbnb with me up north for a
| hacker house type situation? I wanna head up to explore and get
| away from the city. I'm thinking of renting a place for a week.
| Coding. Hiking. Reading. Up for anything!
| bilsbie wrote:
| Warning: always get a second opinion/source. I planned a trip to
| north Georgia based off of this exact website three years ago and
| it ended up being about 3-4 weeks before the leaves turned.
|
| Worst website ever.
| groggo wrote:
| I think it's a pretty awesome website! Maybe just the worst
| data ever?
|
| It has a link for you to submit your observations and improve
| the data.
| sudden_dystopia wrote:
| Leaves are still mostly green here in the upper Midwest. Just
| starting to see the traces of orange.
| clumsysmurf wrote:
| Anyone know how they create the underlying model for
| visualization, and how often it is updated? If we have a snap
| cold spell one evening and the leaves fall, does that get
| reflected in the visualization?
| bilsbie wrote:
| A guy in basement making guesses? See my other comment.
| oldandboring wrote:
| So much for making things accessible to the color-blind.
| supergeek wrote:
| Serious question: Is the fall foliage visible at all to the
| colorblind? Is it less vivid, or just downright invisible until
| the leaves start to die?
| timst4 wrote:
| This is already off. I would add a week or more to the
| prediction. We are in the middle of a cold snap but I haven't
| seen it affect foliage that much.
| butwhywhyoh wrote:
| > If trees did not shed their leaves, their soft vegetation would
| certainly freeze during winter time, damaging and, no doubt,
| killing the tree.
|
| This is just plain wrong, and makes no sense. If the leaves froze
| and died during the winter, how is this different from the tree
| losing the leaves to begin with?
|
| Trees lose their leaves to stop the process of drawing water up
| from the roots through their trunks. If water were to go through
| the freeze/thaw cycle inside the long "straws" of the tree trunk,
| the tree would be torn apart from the expansion/contraction cycle
| of the ice.
| Loudergood wrote:
| I live in Vermont, this is not accurate and at least a week ahead
| of what I'd expect.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| If you can make it to the Smoky Mountains or the Blue Ridge
| Parkway sometime over the next 20 days, it's the best time of the
| year to see the foliage.
|
| Doesn't hurt to stop in Asheville (NC), Gatlinburg (TN), or
| Cherokee (NC) briefly either if you have the time.
| its_bbq wrote:
| The Moog store in Asheville has dozens of synths just out and
| hooked up for visitors to play on their sales floor. Best toy
| store I've been to in years!
| skciva wrote:
| Lovely store, had a blast spending time in there a few years
| ago. Moog is also employee owned! Asheville in general was a
| great city to spend time in.
| glonq wrote:
| Take a detour into Transylvania County and look for white
| squirrels.
| arthurcolle wrote:
| There are white squirrels?
| francisofascii wrote:
| It may be the best time to visit the foliage, but be warned it
| is the worst time for traffic and crowds.
| Kon-Peki wrote:
| I love the Smoky Mountains but the traffic is awful.
|
| There are times when it takes 2 hours to go from I-40 to
| Gatlinburg on TN-66. It's worse than NYC/LA traffic.
|
| Have you ever been up near the Cumberland Gap around this
| time? I imagine that it's also beautiful but less crowded
| (I've only ever been there in the summer).
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