The Flanders 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. 12, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1951. Next is 70° in 2001.
Flanders’s center stands about 30 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 220 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bald Hill, about 290 ft, 5 miles west-southwest.
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.
Clay, sand, gravel. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 13 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 Flanders runs straight into Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Flanders; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Flanders has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. About 44 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Flanders normally reaches 54° and falls to 34°. The record high is 69°, in 2005; the record low 13°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.62 in, fell in 2000.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1951 at Westhampton Gabreski Airport, 4 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
