The Viera West 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.
Viera West’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 Shelly sediments of Plio-Pleistocene age (sand, limestone), from the Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 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 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, limestone. Age: Pleistocene, 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.
Viera West 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 Viera West 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, 10 miles south-southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
