The Grady 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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83° on Nov. 17, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 82° in 1966.
Grady’s center stands about 4,600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,520 ft to 4,660 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Older alluvial deposits of upland plains and piedmont areas, and calcic soils and eolian cover sediments of High Plains region (unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene, 0.1 to 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 33×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 0.1 to 2.6 million years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Middle Miocene to Early Pliocene, 3.6 to 16 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.
Grady has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 9 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 18 inches of water.
On November 14 Grady normally reaches 61° and falls to 32°. The record high is 81°, in 1995; the record low 7°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.83 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at Clovis 13 N, 16 miles south-southeast, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
