The Stella 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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57° on Nov. 11, 1996, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 59° in 1973.
Stella’s center stands about 18 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 640 ft, a difference of 630 ft: hilly country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Las Mesas, about 1,300 ft, 15 miles southeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 18×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Stella has a tropical rainforest climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in June; winter nights fall to about 66° in January. About 78 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Stella normally reaches 87° and falls to 71°. The record high is 99°, in 1915; the record low 60°, in 1995. The most rain on this date, 1.53 in, fell in 2003.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 at Coloso, 7 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
