The Kermit 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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7° on Nov. 14, 1976, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1938. Next is 15° in 1950.
Kermit’s center stands about 2,860 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,830 ft to 2,910 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kermit Sand Hills, about 3,020 ft, 9 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sand sheet deposits, from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 57×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Chemical. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million 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.
Kermit has a hot semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 98° in June; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 11 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kermit normally reaches 69° and falls to 39°. The record high is 84°, in 2006; the record low 7°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.56 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1938 at Wink Faa Airport, 8 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
