The Barre 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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74° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1959. Next is 73° in 1993.
Barre’s center stands about 990 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 600 ft to 1,220 ft, a difference of 620 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Wachusett Mountain, about 2,000 ft, 12 miles east-northeast.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 19×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Granofels, schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 440 to 454 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Late Ordovician, 449 to 453 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Schist, phyllite. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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.
A raindrop that lands in Barre reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Galloway Brook, the Prince, the Ware, the Chicopee and the Connecticut: about 130 river miles.
80 miles of the trip are on the Connecticut.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Barre; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Barre has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 60 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 Barre normally reaches 50° and falls to 28°. The record high is 66°, in 1964; the record low 5°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 1975.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1959 at Barre Falls Dam, 4 miles east, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
