The Virginia Beach 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 1945. Next is 84° in 1993.
Virginia Beach’s center stands about 14 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 80 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Beach Sand and Dune Sand 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 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 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.6 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 Virginia Beach reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of West Neck Creek and the North Landing: about 30 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Virginia Beach; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Virginia Beach has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Virginia Beach normally reaches 62° and falls to 42°. The record high is 80°, in 1993; the record low 26°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.61 in, fell in 1995.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Oceana Nas, 4 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
