Everything about Shaker Heights Ohio totally explained
Shaker Heights is a
city in the
U.S. state of
Ohio,
United States. As of the
2000 Census, the city population was 29,405, making it the tenth-largest city in
Cuyahoga County. It is an inner-ring
streetcar suburb of
Cleveland that abuts the city on its eastern side.
Geography
Topography
Shaker Heights is located at . According to the
United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.3
square miles (16.4
km²), of which, 6.3 square miles (16.3 km²) of it's land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.63%) is water.
Shaker Heights is roughly 1,050
feet (320
m) above
sea level, and is located located about six miles (10 km) inland from
Lake Erie. Shaker Heights is drained by the Doan Brook watershed, and has several small artificial lakes: Horseshoe Lake, Green Lake, Lower Shaker Lake, and Marshall Lake.
Climate
Shaker Heights has a
humid continental climate (
Koppen climate classification Dfa), which is similar with much of the midwest
United States. This climate has very warm, humid summers and cold, snowy winters. The
Lake Erie shoreline is very close to due east-west from the mouth of the Cuyahoga west to
Sandusky, but at the mouth of the Cuyahoga it turns sharply northeast. This feature is the principal contributor to the
lake effect snow that's typical in Shaker Heights weather from mid-November until the surface of Lake Erie freezes, usually in late January or early February. Seasonal totals approaching or exceeding are not uncommon because Shaker Heights is found in an area known as the "
Snow Belt", extending from the east side of Cleveland proper through the eastern suburbs and up the Lake Erie shore as far as
Buffalo, New York. Despite its reputation as a cold, snowy place in winter mild spells often break winter's grip with temperatures sometimes soaring above 68 °
F (20 °
C).
The all-time record high in Shaker Heights of 104 °
F (40 °
C) was established on
June 25 1988, and the all-time record low of −20 °F (−29 °C) was set on
January 19 1994. On average, July is the warmest month with a mean temperature of 71.9 °F (22.2 °C), and January, with a mean temperature of 25.7 °F (−3.5 °C), is the coldest. Normal yearly
precipitation based on the 30-year average from 1971 to 2000 is 38.7 inches (930 mm).
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