The Norfolk 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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85° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1874. Next is 84° in 1993.
Norfolk’s center stands about 19 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 50 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tabb Formation; Lynnhaven Member (sand, silt), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Sand, silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.5 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.
Rain that falls on Norfolk runs straight into Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Norfolk; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Norfolk has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. A normal year brings about 6 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 49 inches of water.
On November 14 Norfolk normally reaches 62° and falls to 45°. The record high is 80°, in 1993; the record low 24°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 2.37 in, fell in 1945.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1874 from the Norfolk Area threaded record (Norfolk International Airport, 3 miles east-southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
