The Englewood Cliffs 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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80° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1939. Next is 74° in 1949.
Englewood Cliffs’s center stands about 290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 470 ft, a difference of 470 ft: hilly country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is High Mountain, about 890 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 45×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Siltstone-mudstone. Age: Late Jurassic, 145 to 164 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Plutonic. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Marble. Age: Early Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Mesoproterozoic. About 1 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 Englewood Cliffs reaches New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Hudson: about 16 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Englewood Cliffs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Englewood Cliffs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. A normal year brings about 30 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Englewood Cliffs normally reaches 56° and falls to 44°. The record high is 72°, in 1993; the record low 24°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.05 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1939 from the New York-LGA Area threaded record (Laguardia Airport, 8 miles south-southeast, 280 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
