The Palmarejo 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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94° on Nov. 13, 2012, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1955. Next is 93° in 2021.
Palmarejo’s center stands about 780 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 320 ft to 1,480 ft, a difference of 1,160 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cerro El Bolo, about 3,560 ft, 13 miles west-northwest.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Palmarejo has a tropical savanna climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in August; winter nights fall to about 66° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Palmarejo normally reaches 87° and falls to 70°. The record high is 91°, in 2018; the record low 62°, in 2001. The most rain on this date, 2.30 in, fell in 1999.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1955 at Aguirre, 10 miles southeast, 760 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
