The Los Banos 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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84° on Nov. 16, 2004, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1906. Next is 83° in 1933.
Los Banos’s center stands about 120 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 150 ft, a difference of 60 ft: nearly flat ground. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Basalt Hill, about 1,690 ft, 13 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary alluvium and marine deposits (coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 20×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone-mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Miocene to Pleistocene, less than 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 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.
Los Banos has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in December. About 10 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Los Banos normally reaches 66° and falls to 45°. The record high is 78°, in 2005; the record low 25°, in 1938. The most rain on this date, 1.12 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1906 at Los Banos, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
