The Vero Beach South 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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90° on Nov. 12, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 89° in 1979.
Vero Beach South’s center stands about 30 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 40 ft, a difference of 30 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Anastasia Formation (sand, limestone), 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.
Sand, limestone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
Rain that falls on Vero Beach South runs straight into the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Vero Beach South; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Vero Beach South has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in August; winter nights fall to about 52° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Vero Beach South normally reaches 79° and falls to 62°. The record high is 85°, in 2018; the record low 40°, in 1975. The most rain on this date, 3.68 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 from the Vero Beach Area threaded record (Vero Beach International Airport, 3 miles north). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
