The Raber 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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8° on Nov. 14, 1996, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1900. Next is 10° in 1911.
Raber’s center stands about 600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 570 ft to 830 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Burnt Bluff Formation (limestone), from the Silurian, 428 to 445 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 54×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 0.6 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 Raber reaches Lake Huron by way of the South Branch Gogomain and the Gogomain: about 17 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Raber; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Raber has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 75° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. A normal year brings about 75 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 32 inches of water.
On November 14 Raber normally reaches 41° and falls to 30°. The record high is 60°, in 1978; the record low 8°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.95 in, fell in 1978.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1900 at Detour Village, 10 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
