The Tribune 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. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 82° in 2005.
Tribune’s center stands about 3,620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,530 ft to 3,650 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Loess (silt), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 48×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Arkose. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 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.
Tribune has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 22 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 18 inches of water.
On November 14 Tribune normally reaches 55° and falls to 26°. The record high is 83°, in 1999; the record low −7°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.41 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Tribune 1 W, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
