Matanuska Glacier, Alaska.
With a nice stretch of weather hitting Alaska earlier this week we made a quick over night trip in search of Fall colors. This was at sunset Monday night.
As you can see here, there were some nice patches of color, along with plenty of areas that were just beginning to change. The higher elevations around Eureka were already past.
More troubling were the number of trees that were going from green to brown – reminds me of what is happening to areas of Colorado. Stretches on the Kenai Peninsula, Eagle River, Mat Valley and even in the mountains along the Glen Highway that normally turn bright yellow were going straight to brown. Don’t really know why, but I would be interested in hearing if others have noticed the same thing, or is my memory of past years a bit skewed through my rosy glasses. 🙂
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Same thing was happening up in the Brooks Range and North in the past few weeks. The popular opinion was that it was due to the abnormal mount of rain they had received in July and August.
The troubling part to me is that we are seeing the same thing in the Yellowstone /Teton region and we have had very little rain.
Maybe it is solar flares 😉
Jess
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Hi Jess. That is too bad to hear it was like that up North, and even worse to think it is like that in the Yellowstone / Teton region when the weather was just the opposite. Well if it is solar flares, maybe it will be good for Aurora! 🙂