The Yonkers 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.
Yonkers’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 570 ft, a difference of 560 ft: hilly country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Buttermilk Hill, about 740 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Fordham Gneiss, undivided, from the Precambrian to Mesoproterozoic.
The section below crosses 11 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 39×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Conglomerate-sandstone. Age: Early Jurassic to Late Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Amphibolite, pelitic-schist. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Mesoproterozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Pelitic-schist, gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Early Cambrian to Middle Ordovician, 459 to 542 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Arkose. Age: Late Jurassic, 145 to 164 million years old. 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. 5 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Yonkers reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Sprain Brook and the Bronx: about 18 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Yonkers; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Yonkers 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 Yonkers 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, 11 miles south). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
