Heck, I was even amazed in northern Minnesota. Hot as could be with huge mosquitoes right up to Labor Day, then the light got that golden fallish tinge, the wind started to blow, the temperature started dropping day by day, the leaves turned and blew off in a matter of weeks and then snow, by October.
Here, we get a cool spell, then “Indian Summer” with daytime temps in the seventies or even eighties, and fall color doesn’t start until late October or early November. Something frozen usually falls a little bit before Christmas, with the first measurable winter precipitation coming between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Some years it doesn’t happen at all, like this year thus far.
There’s a big difference between here in far southern Michigan and up in the UP. Winter comes a good month earlier up there.
This winter is an exceptionally warm one. Its been like Tennessee or something most of the winter. Its in the 40s right now and been that way or warmer through almost the entire winter. Daytime temps are usually in the teens and twenties through January and February. The ice was only marginally safe for fishing for about a week and now the lake is better than half open again.
If this is global warming they’ll play hell convincing us that its bad.