I live in Ohio in the US and it seems like some of the trees around here have started turning colors way earlier than normal. Is it from the wildfires? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

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    In Texas they’re just dying. No rain in over 60 days where I’m at, plus triple digit records being set weekly.

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    Trees drop their leaves whenever there is not enough water. This is often in winter, because they can’t absorb ice. But any water shortage will do. If you are often in nature you may see warning signs such as rolling or folding of the leaves in an attempt to preserve water before the trees decide to just get rid of them early.

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    In Kentucky, the trees haven’t started turning yet, but some of our flowers have stopped blooming and started dropped their leaves.

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        high river, the one just down the block is starting to turn near the top, and by the creek behind the brewery, some of those have started too

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    Ohioan here, I agree. There’s some starting to turn at the tops and it feels like it’s at least 6 weeks early.

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    I have a maple in my front yard that the leaves started turning brown in early July.

    It seems weird, but I think getting hit by a truck mad it forget what month it was.

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      It seems weird, but I think getting hit by a truck mad it forget what month it was.

      Getting hit by a truck might have made it forget to keep living. Brown leaves don’t sound like a good sign.

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    Not in Seattle where I live, though some dandelions are already releasing their fuzz, spiders are already spinning webs on everything outdoors and I had to wear a mask one night to prevent inhaling the still lingering tree-cum of some species that wasn’t common in the suburb I grew up in (or my nose would’ve run and itched all night)

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    ‘Temperatures trigger fall colors A warming climate could be bad for fall foliage in years to come. As fall days grow shorter and temperatures drop, the chlorophyll in a leaf breaks down. That causes the leaf to lose its green color.’ There are even YT videos on it, which are mildly interesting and also alarming.

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    @[email protected] I don’t know in Ohio, but I’ve heard® that when there is too little water or maybe too hot, trees start turning leaves red (maybe because it is an indicator for them that they are at the end of summer and fall is coming?)