The Lauderdale-by-the-Sea 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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10.48 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1952. The next wettest, 4.72 inches, fell in 1954.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea’s center stands about 11 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 20 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Miami Limestone (limestone, sandstone), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 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.
Limestone, sandstone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand, limestone. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 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.
A raindrop that lands in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Middle River: about 9 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea has a tropical rainforest climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 60° in January. About 64 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lauderdale-by-the-Sea normally reaches 82° and falls to 68°. The record high is 88°, in 2018; the record low 52°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 2.10 in, fell in 2015.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1952 at Fort Lauderdale Beach, 4 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
