The Watergate 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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46° on Nov. 11, 2025, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1990. Next is 49° in 1991.
Watergate’s center stands about 19 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 30 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Miami Limestone (limestone, sandstone), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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 12 mi of the line.
Limestone, sandstone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, limestone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 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.
Watergate has a tropical rainforest climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 56° in January. About 64 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Watergate normally reaches 80° and falls to 64°. The record high is 89°, in 2015; the record low 56°, in 1991. The most rain on this date, 2.10 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1990 at Loxahatchee Nwr, 11 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
