The Radium 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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83° on Nov. 17, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1922. Next is 82° in 2025.
Radium’s center stands about 1,950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,930 ft to 1,970 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Dune Sand, from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
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. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 24 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.
Radium has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 18 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 29 inches of water.
On November 14 Radium normally reaches 58° and falls to 32°. The record high is 76°, in 2025; the record low 4°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.78 in, fell in 1931.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1922 at Hudson, 14 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
