The Homestead 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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91° on Nov. 11, 2015, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1990. Next is 90° in 2002.
Homestead’s center stands about 10 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 20 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Miami Limestone (limestone, sandstone), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
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.
Limestone, sandstone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 22 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.
Homestead has a tropical monsoon climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 55° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Homestead normally reaches 83° and falls to 64°. The record high is 90°, in 2015; the record low 55°, in 2009. The most rain on this date, 0.70 in, fell in 2017.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1990 at Homestead Gen Aviation Airport, 5 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
