The Racine 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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1° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1896. Next is 4° in 1933.
Racine’s center stands about 630 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 570 ft to 710 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian, undivided (dolostone), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old.
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.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 12 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 Racine reaches Lake Michigan by way of the Root: about 4 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Racine; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Racine has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 41 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 37 inches of water.
On November 14 Racine normally reaches 47° and falls to 32°. The record high is 72°, in 1971; the record low 7°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.50 in, fell in 1899.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Racine Wwtp, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
