Home/BlogChicago and Lake Michigan are seen in this NASA MODIS image from yesterday, October 11, 2014 (click to enlarge):
NASA MODIS image of Chicago and Lake Michigan, October 11, 2014, remapped into Google Earth.
Most of the fall color is from the corn crop vegetative die off as the corn kernels ripen.
Chicago? Beam me up, Scotty; no intelligent life down here…
It’s not just corn and soybeans. Maples were putting on a show on my drive from Pewaukee to Kiel yesterday.
Wanna give us some fall colors doc? Try MA and NY. Late last week drove the big truck up to Hatfield, MA and back going via the southern Tier of NY over I-86 to I-88 to the I-90 turnpike. Prime leaf looking time and it’s gorgeous.
I’ll get there. For the last 9 days it’s been pretty cloudy, but today looks good for the Northeast so maybe I’ll post something this evening when the data arrive.