The Ocean Breeze 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.
90° on Nov. 11, 2015, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1935. Next is 89° in 1948.
Ocean Breeze’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 50 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Anastasia Formation (sand, limestone), 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.
Sand, limestone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 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 Ocean Breeze runs straight into the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ocean Breeze; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ocean Breeze has a tropical rainforest climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 56° in January. About 63 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ocean Breeze normally reaches 80° and falls to 65°. The record high is 88°, in 1948; the record low 43°, in 1975. The most rain on this date, 2.75 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1935 at Stuart, 4 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.