The Mobile 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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28° on Nov. 11, 2025, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 30° in 1963.
Mobile’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 50 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Stony Hill, about 250 ft, 12 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvial, coastal and low terrace deposits (sand), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 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 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.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 0.6 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 Mobile reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Eslava Creek and the Dog: about 12 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Mobile; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Mobile has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Mobile normally reaches 72° and falls to 50°. The record high is 81°, in 2024; the record low 32°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 1.40 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Mobile Downtown Airport, 6 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
