The Syracuse 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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79° on Nov. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 78° in 2025.
Syracuse’s center stands about 1,080 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,020 ft to 1,230 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wabaunsee Group (shale, sandstone, limestone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
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.
Shale, sandstone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 24 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 Syracuse reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Little Nemaha, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,720 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Syracuse; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Syracuse has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 26 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 32 inches of water.
On November 14 Syracuse normally reaches 52° and falls to 28°. The record high is 79°, in 1999; the record low 0°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.00 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Syracuse, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
