Fall Foliage With TR27: NEVER FORGET (09.11.25)

NEVER FORGET

Update 11 of the 2025 season of Fall Foliage With TR27

09.11.25 🇺🇸

Today is 9/11, and that is a day that we will never forget for obvious reasons - the loss of nearly 3,000 people, the way that security was forever changed (especially at airports, it's WAY harder to get through now, and now you need a REAL ID to fly in the US as of May 2025, so that makes it even harder, I don't even have that yet and I'm planning to fly to Florida before 2025's end, so, OH BOY!), the way we literally LOST an American (and WORLD!) landmark, and today 24 years ago was one of the worst dates our country has ever seen, besides 12/7/1941 (Pearl Harbor), 11/22/1963 (the assassination of JFK), 1/6/2021 (the insurrection/coup d'etat of our own government) and a few others.

Here's the summary and fall foliage pics below:

For today, day 11:

High: 82°F

Average: 75°F

(+7)

Today was another decently abnormally warm day, but I want to tell you something. I used to associate 9/11 as the end of summer weather, but this year, it looks like it's going a little past the expiration date I set for it, and maybe even a lot past it, much like 2023 and 2024. When you see the forecast below, you'll know what I mean. Also, today's weather was basically the same as it was during the 9/11 attacks in 2001, so 9/11 in 2001, 2024 and 2025 all had the same weather! This year was basically the closest, as I captured the Lower Manhattan skyline on a livestream at approximately 8:46 AM on 9/11/2025, exactly 24 years after the first plane hit the original twin towers, and there were basically zero clouds in the sky! Today at 8:46 AM, I was in my Programming Fundamentals II class, so I couldn't mark the moment since it was the middle of the class. Just a part of being a college student! 

The expected forecast from 9/12-9/25:

9/12: 🌤️ 77/52

9/13: 🌥️ 79/55

9/14: 🌧️ 80/53 (32%)

9/15: 🌤️ 79/52

9/16: ⛅ 83/51

9/17: ⛅ 83/54 *potentially the first red tier day, 11-20°F above average! We're getting to the time of year where the temp of a normal summer day is starting to go out of range! Also, how fitting that we're watching Turning Red at home tonight, because it looks like next week, that's what the forecast might be doing!

9/18: ⛅ 78/54

9/19: ⛅ 80/55

9/20: ⛅ 76/50

9/21: ⛅ 74/51

9/22: ⛅ 76/51

9/23: ⛅ 75/51

9/24: ⛅ 74/49

9/25: ⛅ 71/46

Today finally marks the 1st time I see a SPARK of a real fall cooldown, that being 9/22-9/25, where highs are expected to drop from mid-70s to low 70s and nights are expected to drop from low 50s to mid-40s. HOWEVER, today, the expected highs for around a week from now jumped from 80 to 83 and summer is expected to stick around until the equinox and maybe past it! However, this year, the weather and the calendar are basically aligning, with the last frigid night having happened right before Memorial Day and warm weather (by warm, I mean 70s/80s, warm enough to do summer activities like swimming and other water activities) sticking around until the equinox, and then proceeding to POTENTIALLY cool down right after the equinox, which is 9/22! Despite this, 9/22 will definitely feel more like the first day of summer rather than the first day of fall!

Here's the main pic, an screenshot of the Lower Manhattan skyline this morning taken tonight and fall foliage pics taken today, 9/11/25:

*Coming tomorrow, 9/12. Blogger is acting up tonight... 😬🙄

Updated 9:16 PM on 9/11/25 to colorize highs based on how far above or below average they were/are.