PA Fall Foliage Still Slowed By Warm Weather

HARRISBURG, PA — While Pennsylvania's northernmost counties are approaching peak foliage, this week's above-average temperatures and humidity elsewhere is slowing the color transition of leaves in much of the state.

In its second weekly foliage report of the season issued Thursday, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources advised people to travel north of U.S. Route 80 to see the best colors.

In the southeastern part of the state, Bucks, Northampton, Lehigh and Berks counties are currently showing signs of early fall color. Flowering dogwoods and Virginia creeper vines have changed to reddish-purple, and some red maples have changed to fiery red. Poplars and birches are beginning to transition and should add yellows by next week.

Lancaster, Chester, Delaware and Philadelphia counties mostly are unchanged and may not progress much this coming week due to the unseasonably warm weather.

In southwestern Pennsylvania, Allegheny, Washington, Westmoreland, Somerset, Fayette and Greene counties, leaves are displaying more vivid colors by the day. However, peak foliage likely won't occur for another two weeks.

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