The South Lakes 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. 12, 2014, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1917. Next is 51° in 1964.
South Lakes’s center stands about 370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 30 ft to 500 ft, a difference of 470 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pioneer Peak, about 6,180 ft, 12 miles southeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 19×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
South Lakes has a dry-summer subarctic climate. Summer afternoons average 68° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. A normal year brings about 50 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 14 inches of water.
On November 14 South Lakes normally reaches 29° and falls to 14°. The record high is 47°, in 2000; the record low −13°, in 1918. The most rain on this date, 0.26 in, fell in 2022.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1917 at Matanuska Experimental Farm, 2 miles southeast, 200 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
