In one week, which is September 14th, back in 1963 the mercury dropped below freezing — to 32 degrees. Summer won’t last forever. Granted, freezing temperatures are exceptionally rare in mid-September in Albany, they aren’t some kind of impossible notion that never happens. The average high is 73 degrees with a low of 52 degrees, so if the weather is typical, you won’t need your thermal underwear yet.

In three weeks on September 28 the sun will be setting at 6:40 pm, which is 49 minutes earlier then today. The average high is 67 degrees, and the record for that date is 83 degrees was set not that long ago back in 2014.

Columbus Day is Monday, October 8th this year. That’s only 30 days away. That should be peak color in many of the lower elevations, although I’m sure it will just be mostly bare trees at Moose River Plains at that point.