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Wow, it illustrates well what you say about Saskatoon being a four-season climate heavily skewed towards winter. I much prefer Ottawa's pattern. Still quite cold, but at least it doesn't look like winter by mid-fall.
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Average low 4.4C here, the colours are pretty good this year.
Saskatoon is skewed toward Winter, though I'd hardly say it's "heavily" skewed. Plain skewed is more like it. Saskatoon is looking great this week, and not exactly Winter-like, with the leaves still on some of the trees and the snow being wet and transient, but for sure you've passed what most people think of Autumn, and now you're in the "other Autumn" or "late fall", that most elusive of seasons that falls in-between vegetative Autumn and actual Winter. Your first set of pictures exemplifies what I think of when I think of Autumnal weather (minus the snow), which comes somewhat after the foliage peaks. I actually consider the foliage to just be the opening act of fall, with the rest of it coming later before the snow starts sticking around (at that point Winter begins). It's typically only after the peak of the foliage when the weather is "not warm" on a consistent basis. Although this varies by person I don't consider feeling warm or too hot half the time to be fall-like weather - fall-like starts when warm days become the exception, not the rule, and much of the time it feels chilly, often chilly enough for additional layers. Warm for me is anything above 60F or 70F, and I usually don't start feeling chilly until it gets deep into the 40's, and layers only come on when it's sub-30F when winds are calm or sub-50F when winds are strong.
Sorry for the rambling, but I hope that you get some idea of what I'm trying to tell.
Here are a couple more from Saskatoon (and I imagine it looks pretty similar in the rest of the prairies as well)... our temperatures are still quite mild, generally only a few degrees below freezing, but we've just had quite a large snowfall a couple nights ago and so it really looks like winter now.
Here are a couple more from Saskatoon (and I imagine it looks pretty similar in the rest of the prairies as well)... our temperatures are still quite mild, generally only a few degrees below freezing, but we've just had quite a large snowfall a couple nights ago and so it really looks like winter now.
Some foliage pics from Lower Normandy (NW France). Little to no colors yet, and we're in November. Most of the trees were actually shedding their leaves with even turning, maybe because it's an hyperoceanic climate (lower amplitudes and more wind than in Paris). Anyway this is turning out to be a bad year for autumn colors, not that they are outstanding in a normal one. Still, at this point, most of the trees in the second picture should be at least yellow.
The village below hosts some kind of exotic garden. Trachycarpus and yuccas are everywhere in that region, from front gardens to roundabouts. There are quite a few CIDPs too.
Btw, he factory on the hill is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. In our back sits a two-reactor nuclear power plant, with a third one U/C. For some reason, nuclear engineers seem to love that quaint little bay.
Sandy blew off most of the leaves by this point, even though again like I said, half the trees had no leaves by the beginning of October anyway. A few leaves still hanging on here and there, especially the one tree in my backyard that I like to call the "Stubborn Tree". This tree loses about 80% of it's leaves by the end of November, but the other 20% hang on all winter until March!! They just don't wanna leave I guess lol. And I also have a cherry blossom tree in my yard that's been acting weird this year. Last year it had almost no leaves at this point, and this year it has about half its leaves left and they're ALL GREEN!!! The colored ones fell off already, but I don't get why it still has green leaves when in all other years it had no green leaves left by early October. I'm telling you this year has been a weird year for fall foliage!
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A few leaves still hanging on here and there, especially the one tree in my backyard that I like to call the "Stubborn Tree". This tree loses about 80% of it's leaves by the end of November, but the other 20% hang on all winter until March!! They just don't wanna leave I guess lol. And I also have a cherry blossom tree in my yard that's been acting weird this year. Last year it had almost no leaves at this point, and this year it has about half its leaves left and they're ALL GREEN!!! 
