The Limerick 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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73° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 70° in 2022.
Limerick’s center stands about 570 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 300 ft to 730 ft, a difference of 430 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Green Mountain, about 1,920 ft, 13 miles west-northwest.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 19×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mudstone, limestone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 428 to 459 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Silurian to Devonian, 359 to 445 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Limerick reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Little Ossipee and the Saco: about 45 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Limerick; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Limerick has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 8° in January. A normal year brings about 81 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 52 inches of water.
On November 14 Limerick normally reaches 46° and falls to 26°. The record high is 62°, in 2010; the record low 7°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.13 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Hollis, 7 miles east-southeast, 270 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
