The Silver Springs 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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−44° on Nov. 12, 1989, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1909. Next is −42° in 1969.
Silver Springs’s center stands about 1,160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,040 ft to 1,580 ft, a difference of 540 ft: hilly country.
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.
Silver Springs has a dry-summer subarctic climate. Summer afternoons average 69° in July; winter nights fall to about −12° in January. About 12 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Silver Springs normally reaches 15° and falls to −2°. The record high is 41°, in 1964; the record low −37°, in 1918. The most rain on this date, 0.41 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1909 from the Gulkana Area threaded record (Gulkana Airport, 10 miles north-northwest, 420 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
