The Lake Forest Park 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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70° on Nov. 14, 1995, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 66° in 1905.
Lake Forest Park’s center stands about 80 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 500 ft, a difference of 490 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bald Hill, about 730 ft, 13 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Younger glacial drift (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 31×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Arkose. Age: Late Cretaceous to Eocene, 34 to 100 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.
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 Lake Forest Park reaches Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean by way of McAleer Creek: about 19 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Washington.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lake Forest Park; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lake Forest Park has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in August; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 38 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Lake Forest Park normally reaches 52° and falls to 41°. The record high is 70°, in 1995; the record low 15°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 2.27 in, fell in 1906.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 from the Seattle City Area threaded record (Seattle Sand Point Wfo, 5 miles south-southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
