It’s back to normal for the wholesale used-car market.

Following a summer where both the value retention in used cars and weather were hot, Black Book is starting to see “normal patterns” for this season, as fall marches on.

“Used-car depreciation rates are now showing normal patterns for this time of the year after strong retention in summer,” Black Book executive vice president of operations Anil Goyal said in this week’s Black Book Market Insights report.

After softening an average of 0.47 percent during the previous four weeks, there was 0.60-percent depreciation in car segments last week, according to Black Book.

Truck segment depreciation also grew steeper.

Their values were down 0.48 percent last week after 0.35-percent average depreciation in the four weeks leading up to that.

Anecdotal evidence of the new season can be found in the commentary Black Book’s field team gathered in their usual weekly observations of the auction lanes.

For example, this comment from Florida: “A more typical fall market as prices have dropped and retail is slower. The demand is for vehicles with good miles and a clean history report.”

Likewise, an auction owner in Missouri said this, according to Black Book’s staff: “The fall market is here. Vehicles are in short supply and the demand has slowed.”