The Alamo 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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Chance of showers; warmer
Chance of showers; cooler
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33° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 34° in 1970.
Alamo’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 80 ft to 120 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Silt, clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Silt, sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Alamo reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Arroyo Colorado: about 70 river miles.
55 miles of the trip are on the Arroyo Colorado.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Alamo; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Alamo has a hot semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 100° in August; winter nights fall to about 53° in January. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Alamo normally reaches 80° and falls to 60°. The record high is 93°, in 1989; the record low 33°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.20 in, fell in 1959.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 from the McAllen Area threaded record (Mcallen Miller International Airport, 8 miles west). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
