The Manasota Key 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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5.75 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1927. The next wettest, 4.60 inches, fell in 2020.
Manasota Key’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 30 ft, a difference of 30 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
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.
Sand, limestone. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
Manasota Key has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 52° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Manasota Key normally reaches 80° and falls to 60°. The record high is 90°, in 1993; the record low 40°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 3.36 in, fell in 1969.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1927 at Venice, 13 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
