The Hoonah 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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52° on Nov. 15, 2019, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 51° in 2016.
Hoonah’s center stands about 40 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 1,640 ft, a difference of 1,640 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sigugu Shaa, about 3,170 ft, 6 miles south.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Hoonah has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 65° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. A normal year brings about 90 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 66 inches of water.
On November 14 Hoonah normally reaches 39° and falls to 31°. The record high is 50°, in 2019; the record low 20°, in 2006. The most rain on this date, 2.41 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Hoonah, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
