The South Patrick Shores 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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89° on Nov. 12, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1937. Next is 89° in 2014.
South Patrick Shores’s center stands about 6 ft 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: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 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 South Patrick Shores reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Banana, the Indian and the Saint Sebastian: about 30 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of South Patrick Shores; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
South Patrick Shores has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 52° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 South Patrick Shores normally reaches 77° and falls to 61°. The record high is 87°, in 1970; the record low 40°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 3.02 in, fell in 1941.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1937 from the Melbourne Area threaded record (Melbourne Wfo, 7 miles south-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
