This weekend in the Adirondacks

The leaves are still near peak at the periphery of the Adirondack Park, including the Lake George and Lake Champlain valleys. Elsewhere, they are mostly past peak, and leaves are falling.

The leaves are peak or near peak color change throughout most of the Adirondacks. There is less leaf change at the periphery of the Adirondack Park, including the Lake George and Lake Champlain valleys.

It’s fall foliage time and the leaves are peak or near peak across most of the region, and about half way changed at the southern periphery of the Adirondack Park and along the Lake George and Lake Champlain Valleys.

The fall foliage season is well underway. This weekend expect the leaf change to be mostly at midpoint throughout the Central Adirondacks, with near peak and peak foliage at higher elevations. Leaf color will continue to widen through the periphery of the Adirondack Park over the next few weeks, ending along the Lake George and Lake Champlain valleys, which still remain mostly green.

The final astronomical weekend of summer is going to feel a bit like summer, too. Expect some nighttime and morning valley fog through the weekend.

Autumn is in the air in the mountains, and there are some isolated patches of fall color. Temperatures fell into the 30s last night and are expected to again tonight.

Expect seasonably cool but mostly pleasant weather, although there is a chance for passing showers through the weekend. Cold mountain valleys dipped into the 30s last night, but night-time lows should be mostly in the 40s this weekend.

There was some dense valley fog this morning, and there is a chance of showers in the mountains today, with wind gusts expected to 20 to 30 miles per hour, and a chilly night tonight with some colder valleys expected to reach into the mid-40s. Saturday is looking like the best day of the weekend, with a chance of a shower of on Sunday and Monday.

Expect valley fog in the mornings and a cooler weekend, with nighttime temperatures reaching into the 40s, and highs mostly in the upper-60s to mid-70s.

The fire danger across much of the Park has been raised to Moderate, so use caution with open fires.