The Lake Minchumina 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. 12, 1989, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1945. Next is −42° in 1956.
Lake Minchumina’s center stands about 680 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 630 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 420 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Yutokh Hill, about 1,100 ft, 4 miles east.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 17×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Lake Minchumina has a dry-summer subarctic climate. Summer afternoons average 69° in July; winter nights fall to about −10° in January. A normal year brings about 54 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 14 inches of water.
On November 14 Lake Minchumina normally reaches 13° and falls to 1°. The record high is 42°, in 2013; the record low −39°, in 1956. The most rain on this date, 0.38 in, fell in 2018.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Minchumina, here, 340 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
