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Weather shaping up for good fall tree color
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(Radio Iowa) – A D-N-R forester says the cooler temperatures are setting things up for a good fall color show in the coming weeks. Joe Herring is from Iowa Falls, and says the colors should start showing up soon. “I think it’s going to be good if if this weather is any indication of where we’re going, it’s perfect. We think the best fall colors come from clear bluebird sky days, warm days, cool nights, not freezing,” he says. Herring says freezing temperatures can kill off the color show.
“If it dips down into hard frost, that can actually kill those leaves and end the fall color early. But you know, we want to avoid the real strong, windy days and we’d like to avoid, you know, tons of rain in the fall,” Herring says. He says the tree canopies are strong heading into the fall color season. “It’s been a really good year for foliage, just for vegetative growth in general, just because of all the rain we’ve had,” he says.
Herring says he starting to see some early color in some trees, but there’s not been a full scale breakout just yet.
