The 2018 Autumn Colouring Textile Map

Every twelvemonth SmokyMountains.com liberate an interactive map which shows when y'all tin await to bask the total technicolor sense of America's autumnal foliage. The map uses historical weather condition records from all 48 continental states to predict the arrival of autumn at the county degree across the contiguous United States.

The 2018 Fall Foliage Prediction Map has a engagement command which allows y'all to stance the leafage color y'all tin await for whatever engagement this fall. Move the engagement dorsum in addition to forth in addition to the map automatically updates to present the predicted autumn color inwards each county. The prediction is based on an analysis of several meg information points of historical weather condition patterns in addition to historical leafage trends.

Wes Melton, co-founder in addition to CTO of SmokyMountains.com, says that,  "historical information drives our model to transcend away to a greater extent than accurate each year. Each year, nosotros purpose a proprietary algorithm to procedure millions of information pieces in addition to output accurate predictions for the entire country. Once the information is processed, the map outputs over 50,000 pieces of predictive information in addition to and thus displays it on an interactive map."

This twelvemonth the Fall Foliage Prediction Map is accompanied yesteryear a nautical chart which shows the average US temperature since 1990. Wes Melton explains that, "The temperature information supplied yesteryear the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is 1 of the virtually of import factors (in predicting autumn foliage colors) in addition to forthwith leafage map users tin easily visualize the send upon of regional atmospheric precipitation on peak autumn dates."