The La Joya 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.
Mostly sunny
Chance of showers; warmer
Chance of showers; cooler
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Mostly cloudy; warmer
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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.
La Joya’s center stands about 180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 110 ft to 210 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lissie Formation (silt, sand, clay), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million 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 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, sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 11 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 1 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 La Joya reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Rio Grande: about 200 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of La Joya; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
La Joya 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 La Joya 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, 15 miles east-southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
