Midwest Feels Chill, New England Fall Color?

Sorry for the short update today; I've been having Internet problems and have been busy pre-writing blogs for Vacation. To quote from one of our news articles this morning... "From Nebraska and Iowa to Oklahoma and Mississippi, low temperatures Saturday morning set new records. For Omaha, Neb., it was the coolest morning for the date in over 130 years! Other long-standing records from the 1920s were broken in Grand Island, Neb., Hastings, Neb., Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Cincinnati, Ohio."

I'll post a complete count of the low temperature records Saturday, and so far this month, Sunday morning. Here's what the temperature map looked like this morning - widespread 50s from the Midwest into parts of Pennsylvania and New York. As Henry Margusity said on Facebook this morning "it feels like a day I'd be heading to a football game." Mark Vogan has some more stats, including the fact that 2006 featured a *low* temperature in New York City of 87, which beats any *high* this summer there!

One related tidbit from New England that I missed earlier this month when talking about "The Year Without A Summer" -- Mark mentioned this today -- On July 5, this blog claims that fall color was beginning to appear in New England. The Maine government site lists the earliest fall color potential as September.