The Lewes 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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3.21 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1945. The next wettest, 3.10 inches, fell in 2020.
Lewes’s center stands about 8 ft 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.
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.
Silt. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 13 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.
Rain that falls on Lewes runs straight into Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lewes; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lewes has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. A normal year brings about 10 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 47 inches of water.
On November 14 Lewes normally reaches 59° and falls to 42°. The record high is 77°, in 1989; the record low 21°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.68 in, fell in 1995.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Lewes, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
