Is it normal for trees to start dropping leaves in June ???

I've lived in Hillbilly NY for most of my life, and have never noticed what appeared to be early leaf drop until last summer.

Last year I noticed it far before the typical fall shedding.

Yesterday my 3 year old grandaughter said, "Look Grandma it's snowing !!" Sure enough I went outside and our willows are dropping leaves like crazy .... with 3 huge ones in our yard, it certainly looked something like snow fall.

Is this normal, or are we experiencing something completely new in the past 2 years ???

Anyone else noticing it ?

I've lived in Hillbilly NY for most of my life, and have never noticed what appeared to be early leaf drop until last summer.

Last year I noticed it far before the typical fall shedding.

Yesterday my 3 year old grandaughter said, "Look Grandma it's snowing !!" Sure enough I went outside and our willows are dropping leaves like crazy .... with 3 huge ones in our yard, it certainly looked something like snow fall.

Is this normal, or are we experiencing something completely new in the past 2 years ???

Anyone else noticing it ?

We are supposed to plunge into the next great Ice Age. From what I understand about it, it's not going to be a gradual one, but rather a sudden type of ordeal. With as many of the volcanoes and even the melting of the tundra in Russia and possibly Canada and Alaska LOTS of methane's being released in almost incalcable rates and measurements. It's merely a matter of time before we see massive drop offs in tempertures planet wide instead of mostly in the Euporean countries. The Earth's axis is WAY off from the 23.5 degrees. That's also a major contributor in a quite a few ways. I don't think that this major Ice Age is going to last a long long time. Maybe a few decades at max. At least I hope so anyways.

LOL !!!!!!! depends on a few things--'
tree needs more water
is growing
has some sort of sickness
OR simply is the same kind of POS right here that sheds,DROPS leaves and bark and branches all throughout the summer.
other morning i thought it was FALL,the leaves were ankle deep all over the place.
does it EVERY YEAR and LIVES on to do all over again next year.

my vote is on fukushima

It's a little early, but the warm weather came early too.


Trees with continuous growth, normally called sustained growth, continue to produce leaves as long as growing conditions are favorable. It seemed fitting then, that such trees might abort leaves when conditions aren’t favorable. Hmmm. In other words, they “over produce” leaves, then in an effort to conserve limited moisture in harsh, hot times, they rebalance by aborting leaves. Normally the oldest (interior) leaves are the first ones aborted.







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Here in socal..The magnolia tree in the park..DROPPING LEAVES ALL OVER!

We did have a local outbreak of 17 yr locust that arrived 3 yrs early. But it's been hot and sunny in Ohio so the trees shedding leaves don't seem to be a big deal. Plus it's not like they are losing all their leaves, I would panic then.