The Lake Placid 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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92° on Nov. 13, 2015, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1969. Next is 91° in 2018.
Lake Placid’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 70 ft to 160 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Reworked Cypresshead sediments (sand), from the Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
Lake Placid has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 48° in January. About 54 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lake Placid normally reaches 81° and falls to 57°. The record high is 91°, in 2018; the record low 38°, in 1975. The most rain on this date, 1.68 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1969 at Archbold Bio Station, 8 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
