The Perdido Beach 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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29° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 30° in 1963.
Perdido Beach’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
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: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.3 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 Perdido Beach reaches Perdido Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Palmetto Creek: about 1 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Perdido Beach; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Perdido Beach has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 58 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Perdido Beach normally reaches 70° and falls to 49°. The record high is 82°, in 1993; the record low 30°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 1.61 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at Pensacola Forest Sherman Nas, 11 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
