The Sunrise Beach Village 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.
Partly cloudy
Showers likely
Mostly cloudy; cooler
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24° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 24° in 2019.
Sunrise Beach Village’s center stands about 850 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 820 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Riley Mountains, about 1,810 ft, 14 miles west.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 21×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Schist. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone-mudstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 497 million 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. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Sunrise Beach Village reaches the Gulf of America by way of Lake Lyndon B Johnson and the Colorado: about 390 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Marble Falls and Lake Lyndon B Johnson.
320 miles of the trip are on the Colorado.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sunrise Beach Village; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sunrise Beach Village has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in August; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sunrise Beach Village normally reaches 69° and falls to 48°. The record high is 86°, in 2007; the record low 24°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.80 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Burnet Municipal Airport, 14 miles northeast, 420 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
