The West Hampton Dunes 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.
West Hampton Dunes’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 60 ft, a difference of 60 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bald Hill, about 290 ft, 7 miles north.
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 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.
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.
West Hampton Dunes 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 West Hampton Dunes 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, 7 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
