The Central plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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43° on Nov. 14, 2013, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1935. Next is 42° in 1948.
Central’s center stands about 960 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 830 ft to 1,210 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Boulder Hill, about 3,670 ft, 13 miles northwest.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Central has a dry-summer subarctic climate. Summer afternoons average 72° in July; winter nights fall to about −23° in January. About 12 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Central normally reaches 4° and falls to −12°. The record high is 43°, in 2013; the record low −36°, in 2006. The most rain on this date, 0.30 in, fell in 1936.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1935 at Circle Hot Springs, 7 miles southeast, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
