The warm weather this week has apparently put the fall color change on hold. There is some fall color, but you’ll have to drive a ways to see it.

Here’s the fall color map as of today, September 25.

The western Upper Peninsula forests had started to change colors last week. This week the reports are that very little additional fall color has emerged. The western half of the U.P. is around 25 percent of peak fall color.

If you have the time to drive there, the weekend weather looks great across the Upper Peninsula .

Across Lower Michigan the warm weather this week has also slowed much development of fall color. The route of U.S. 10 to M-115 from Midland to Cadillac does have a little more than just isolated fall color. The stage of fall color in this interior corridor is ranked around

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