The Lubec 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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65° on Nov. 14, 2005, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 65° in 2012.
Lubec’s center stands about 130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 210 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pughole Mountain, about 360 ft, 8 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian gabbro/diorite/ultramafic rocks (gabbro, diorite, ultramafic), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 63×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gabbro, diorite, ultramafic. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic, mafic-volcanic. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Mafic-volcanic, felsic-volcanic. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic, mafic-volcanic. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 0.3 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.
A raindrop that lands in Lubec reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Hamilton Brook: about 1 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lubec; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lubec has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. A normal year brings about 95 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 55 inches of water.
On November 14 Lubec normally reaches 46° and falls to 31°. The record high is 65°, in 2005; the record low 15°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.21 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Robbinston, 20 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
