{"id":5667,"date":"2021-09-01T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2021-09-01T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:25:40","slug":"peak-fall-foliage-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5667","title":{"rendered":"Peak Fall Foliage Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My favorite season is fall. The air turns cool, there are hay rides and pumpkin patches, one curls up with a good book in front of a fire, reading scary tales, and, of course, watching the leaves change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan has some very good, live updating of fall colors<\/a> on a few websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The folks over at this website have a nifty little tool<\/a> that predicts when fall colors will change this year. How do they predict the trends this year? With a little bit of data (and possibly a touch of pretentiousness):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company uses a model that ingests a multitude of data sources including historical precipitation, NOAA precipitation forecasts, elevation, actual temperatures, temperature forecasts, and average daylight exposure to develop a baseline fall date for each county in the continental United States. Next, the model consumes hundreds-of-thousands of additional data points from a variety of government and non-government sources and layers this data over its own historical data from past years and, finally, with a high degree of accuracy, the algorithm produces nearly 50,000 date outputs indicating the progression of fall for every county in a graphical presentation that is easy to digest.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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My favorite season is fall. The air turns cool, there are hay rides and pumpkin patches, one curls up with a good book in front of a fire, reading scary tales, and, of course, watching the leaves change. Japan has some very good, live updating of fall colors on a few websites. The folks over at this website have a nifty little tool that predicts when fall colors will change this year. How do they predict the trends this year?…<\/p>\n

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