The South Windham 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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73° on Nov. 12, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 72° in 1896.
South Windham’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 350 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Moody Mountain, about 800 ft, 15 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian - Ordovician Vassalboro Formation (sandstone), from the Late Ordovician to Silurian, 428 to 459 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 43×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 428 to 459 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Schist, slate. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 4 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 South Windham reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Black Brook and the Presumpscot: about 17 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of South Windham; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
South Windham has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 69 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 48 inches of water.
On November 14 South Windham normally reaches 49° and falls to 32°. The record high is 69°, in 1973; the record low 12°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 5.03 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Portland Area threaded record (Portland Jetport, 9 miles southeast, 110 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
