The Scriba 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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73° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1926. Next is 70° in 1928.
Scriba’s center stands about 380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 520 ft, a difference of 280 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bristol Hill, about 540 ft, 10 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Oswego Sandstone, from the Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 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 64×. 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. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 434 to 459 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 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.
Rain that falls on Scriba runs only a short way, about 3 miles, to Lake Ontario. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Scriba; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Scriba has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 140 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 43 inches of water.
On November 14 Scriba normally reaches 48° and falls to 36°. The record high is 68°, in 1994; the record low 16°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.85 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1926 from the Oswego Area threaded record (Oswego, 5 miles west-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
