If you’re planning to take some awesome photos in the upcoming fall, this tool might be of help to you! An interactive fall foliage prediction map shows the peak periods when leaves will be at their most colorful in each region. The Smoky Mountains portal designed the fall foliage prediction map for tourists:
The visual planning guide allows users to click through one week at a time, starting from August 30 to November 15, and shows the change in foliage across the United States, from “No Change” with leaves still green and all the way to “Past Peak” when leaves begin to fall.
The company uses a model that ingests a multitude of data sources including historical precipitation, NOAA precipitation forecasts, elevation, actual temperatures, temperature forecasts, and average daylight exposure to develop a baseline fall date for each county in the continental United States. Next, the model consumes hundreds-of-thousands of additional data points from a variety of government and non-government sources and layers this data over its own historical data from past years and, finally, with a high degree of accuracy, the algorithm produces nearly 50,000 date outputs indicating the progression of fall for every county in a graphical presentation that is easy to digest.
Image credit: Smoky Mountains
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hmmmm, cool
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