The Parcelas Peñuelas 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.
Parcelas Peñuelas’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 940 ft, a difference of 930 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is La Torrecilla, about 3,020 ft, 14 miles north.
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.
Parcelas Peñuelas 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 Parcelas Peñuelas 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, 8 miles east-southeast, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
