The Womens Bay 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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4.63 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1913. The next wettest, 3.66 inches, fell in 1996.
Womens Bay’s center stands about 990 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 2,850 ft, a difference of 2,760 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Crown Mountain, about 4,150 ft, 10 miles west-southwest.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Womens Bay has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 63° in August; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 70 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 78 inches of water.
On November 14 Womens Bay normally reaches 41° and falls to 30°. The record high is 59°, in 2013; the record low 9°, in 1977. The most rain on this date, 1.75 in, fell in 1976.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1913 from the Kodiak Area threaded record (Kodiak Airport, 8 miles northeast, 970 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
