The Farmers Loop 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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−42° on Nov. 11, 1989, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is −40° in 2011.
Farmers Loop’s center stands about 940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 450 ft to 1,390 ft, a difference of 940 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pedro Dome, about 2,600 ft, 10 miles northeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 11×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Farmers Loop has a subarctic climate. Summer afternoons average 71° in July; winter nights fall to about −11° in January. A normal year brings about 64 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 13 inches of water.
On November 14 Farmers Loop normally reaches 12° and falls to −1°. The record high is 45°, in 1976; the record low −33°, in 1956. The most rain on this date, 0.62 in, fell in 2013.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at College Observatory, 6 miles southwest, 340 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
