The Salinas 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.
Salinas’s center stands about 40 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 600 ft, a difference of 600 ft: hilly country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cerro de la Tabla, about 2,890 ft, 12 miles east-northeast.
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.
Salinas 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 Salinas 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, 5 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
