Warmer fall temperatures lead to later leaf drop
As the climate warms, fall leaves are dropping later in the season. This presents challenges for fall leaf collection in the city of Milwaukee.
Warmer fall temperatures lead to later leaf drop
As the climate warms, fall leaves are dropping later in the season. This presents challenges for fall leaf collection in the city of Milwaukee.
It's the first week of November and there are still plenty of leaves on the trees.
The beautiful red, orange, and golden leaves have put on a beautiful show across southeast Wisconsin this autumn. Now, those leaves are losing their hold and fluttering to the ground, and into Milwaukee streets. Attending to those leaves are the bright yellow trucks, scooping, scraping, and hauling away all those leaves.
"I know there's a lot of leaves. When you go down some of these streets around here, you see pile after pile after pile, I know it's a daunting task," Milwaukee homeowner Mike Munson said.
Munson worked as an arborist and understands that different trees drop leaves at different times. But lately, he's noticing something different.
"The leaf pickup is normally done by late November; they're usually all do...