The Weston 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, 1990, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 69° in 1964.
Weston’s center stands about 880 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 820 ft to 1,240 ft, a difference of 420 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Otteson Bluff, about 1,280 ft, 13 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cambrian, undivided (sandstone), from the Cambrian, 487 to 542 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 35×. 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. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 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 Weston reaches the Gulf of America by way of Knights Creek, the Eau Galle, the Chippewa and the Mississippi: about 1,780 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Weston; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Weston has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 4° in January. A normal year brings about 41 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Weston normally reaches 43° and falls to 24°. The record high is 70°, in 1990; the record low 4°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.63 in, fell in 2010.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Menomonie, 8 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
