Every twelvemonth SmokyMountains.com unloosen an interactive map which shows when you lot tin move human face to taste 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 you lot to persuasion the leafage color you lot tin move human face for whatever engagement this fall. Move the engagement dorsum too forth too the map automatically updates to exhibit the predicted autumn color inwards each county. The prediction is based on an analysis of several 1000000 information points of historical weather condition patterns too historical leafage trends.
Wes Melton, co-founder too CTO of SmokyMountains.com, says that, "historical information drives our model to choke to a greater extent than accurate each year. Each year, nosotros purpose a proprietary algorithm to procedure millions of information pieces too output accurate predictions for the entire country. Once the information is processed, the map outputs over 50,000 pieces of predictive information too and thence 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 almost of import factors (in predicting autumn foliage colors) too straightaway leafage map users tin move easily visualize the touching of regional atmospheric precipitation on peak autumn dates."
