The Point MacKenzie 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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50° on Nov. 13, 1967, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1953. Next is 47° in 1979.
Point MacKenzie’s center stands about 230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 20 ft to 270 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bunker Hill, about 400 ft, 13 miles southeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 59×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Point MacKenzie has a dry-summer subarctic climate. Summer afternoons average 66° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. A normal year brings about 78 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 16 inches of water.
On November 14 Point MacKenzie normally reaches 29° and falls to 18°. The record high is 45°, in 1961; the record low −8°, in 1973. The most rain on this date, 0.37 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1953 from the Anchorage Area threaded record (Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport, 13 miles south, 100 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
