Where was the Fall?

Waiting for the leaf collectors!  11/10/19
dwm photo

 Everyone talks about the weather; no one does anything about it.

There has been a lot of discussion around southern Wisconsin as what is typically the best season of the year quickly merged into early winter.

The changing leaves on the trees were covered with snow before Halloween.  The snow was accompanied with temperatures in the single digits which persuaded most of the leaves to give up.

Our condo association annually contracts with a small business to collect and compost our leaves.  In our time here, I think this is the first time the folks with blowers and rakes have to work around fading piles of snow.

According to the Wisconsin State Climatology Office we are way ahead of usual, more than 11 inches has fallen!

Some tenacious stacks of snow are
waiting for reinforcements.
11/10/2019 dwm photo  

According to their own stats, we don't usually record that much snow until mid-December... which is leading a lot of my friends to think this is going to be a very long winter.

When we lived in northern Wisconsin - I recall one winter where snow fell in October and stayed until March.  Since the snow so far has mostly melted, I don't see that happening.

However, I think the possibility of us seeing anything resembling an "indian summer" is highly unlikely.