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Shenandoah National Park Naturalist Chuck Anibal predicted that the peak of the fall leaf season will occur “in about one to one and a half weeks.” He reported that the color change is “right on schedule,” and that he doesn’t expect peculiarities of any significance arising from the recent dry weather.
Virginia State Climatolologist Pat Michaels said that the prediction for the next week to 10 days is for temperatures and rainfall above normal. He added that the above normal temperatures will tend to slow the color change in the leaves, since the color change is a chemical reaction within the leaves related to the number of cool nighttime hours. Dr. Michaels cautioned, however, that “we don’t know for sure how it will turnout.”
Several local prognosticators have forecast an unusually cold winter, based upon a particularly heavy crop of hickory nuts, early and furious scrambling for the nuts by the
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