The Whitingham 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.
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy; warmer
Partly cloudy
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Partly cloudy
73° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1987. Next is 73° in 2022.
Whitingham’s center stands about 1,640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,350 ft to 2,230 ft, a difference of 880 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Snow, about 3,600 ft, 12 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, from the Mesoproterozoic, 1.2 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 15 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 8×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.2 to 1.6 billion years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granofels. Age: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian, 521 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1.2 to 1.4 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 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. 9 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 Whitingham reaches Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Deerfield and the Connecticut: about 170 river miles.
120 miles of the trip are on the Connecticut.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Whitingham; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Whitingham has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. About 42 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Whitingham normally reaches 49° and falls to 30°. The record high is 63°, in 2011; the record low 16°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.65 in, fell in 2000.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1987 at North Adams Harriman Airport, 16 miles west-southwest, 990 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
