The Hernando 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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96° on Nov. 13, 2007, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 91° in 2023.
Hernando Beach’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 80 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bailey Hill, about 240 ft, 15 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Suwannee Limestone (limestone, dolostone), from the Oligocene, 23 to 34 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 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, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 0.5 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 Hernando Beach runs straight into the Gulf of America.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hernando Beach; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hernando Beach has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 44° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hernando Beach normally reaches 78° and falls to 52°. The record high is 88°, in 1996; the record low 34°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 2.53 in, fell in 1941.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 from the Brooksville Area threaded record (Brooksville Hernando County Airport, 13 miles east). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
