The Port Elizabeth 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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80° on Nov. 15, 1993, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1943. Next is 76° in 1955.
Port Elizabeth’s center stands about 17 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 80 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
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. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 14 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 14 million years old. About 7 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 Port Elizabeth reaches Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Muskee Creek and the Maurice: about 13 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Port Elizabeth; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Port Elizabeth has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Port Elizabeth normally reaches 57° and falls to 35°. The record high is 74°, in 1993; the record low 18°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.31 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1943 at Millville Municipal Airport, 6 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
