The La Dolores 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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Mostly cloudy; hot
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Showers likely; hot
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Chance of showers; hot
Chance of showers; hot
93° on Nov. 12, 1983, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1898. Next is 92° in 1981.
La Dolores’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 660 ft, a difference of 660 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is El Toro, about 3,450 ft, 7 miles south-southeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
La Dolores has a tropical monsoon climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in June; winter nights fall to about 72° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 La Dolores normally reaches 86° and falls to 75°. The record high is 92°, in 1981; the record low 68°, in 1961. The most rain on this date, 1.54 in, fell in 1948.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1898 from the San Juan Area threaded record (San Juan L M Marin International Airport, 11 miles west-northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
