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Nature's fall color palette and a meteor shower this weekend

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Pamela McCown | 10/20/2012

For those of us who consider ourselves to be "visual" people, fall can be simply overwhelming. Everywhere we look, there's something else that takes our breath away.

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Early fall color at the higher elevations

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Pamela McCown | 10/05/2012

It really is a magical time of the year, as our once deep-green mountainsides begin to show their fall color. The reduced daylight hours have triggered the deciduous trees' preparation for the coming winter and, at times, it seems like the changes happen so quickly that you can see them occur overnight. I took this image Thursday morning — amazed at just how fast these trees seem to be changing.

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When it rains, it pours (at least for some)

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Pamela McCown | 07/12/2012

The stalled frontal boundary that is lingering over the Southeast U.S. has provided some much needed rainfall from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean — but some folks in Western North Carolina saw too much of a good thing on Wednesday, July 11, when more than 3 inches of rain fell in areas of both Buncombe and Madison Counties.

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