The Skanee 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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69° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1968. Next is 63° in 2023.
Skanee’s center stands about 760 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 590 ft to 900 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Curwood, about 2,010 ft, 12 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Jacobsville Sandstone, from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion 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 14×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Slate. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion 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.
Rain that falls on Skanee runs straight into Lake Superior. 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 Skanee; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Skanee has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 75° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. A normal year brings about 208 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 38 inches of water.
On November 14 Skanee normally reaches 36° and falls to 24°. The record high is 61°, in 1990; the record low 0°, in 1995. The most rain on this date, 0.90 in, fell in 2000.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1968 at Herman, 16 miles south-southwest, 960 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
