The South Bay 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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39° on Nov. 16, 1995, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 40° in 1962.
South Bay’s center stands about 13 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 20 ft, a difference of 10 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Shelly sediments of Plio-Pleistocene age (sand, limestone), from the Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 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: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 24 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.
South Bay has a tropical monsoon climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 57° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 South Bay normally reaches 81° and falls to 65°. The record high is 89°, in 2018; the record low 46°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 0.75 in, fell in 2022.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Canal Point Usda, 14 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
