Bay Minette1R8
At an airfield/18.8 mi away/236 ft/205 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Mount Vernon until 7 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees cooler: a high of 71° after 87° today.
Now. Mount Vernon is 68° and partly cloudy at 3 AM. The dew point is 66°, so the air feels oppressive. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 71°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:37 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Mount Vernon, Alabama.
Air quality
Index 50, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Mobile (AL), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 58, moderate.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mount Vernon, AlabamaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Mount Vernon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Bay Minette1R8
At an airfield/18.8 mi away/236 ft/205 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW2037GW2037
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.4 mi away/241 ft/210 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/26.5 mi away/299 ft/268 ft above here
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Perdido Riv FarmsS2181
At a soil climate station/26.5 mi away/299 ft/268 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Fairhope 3 NE63869
At a climate reference station/39.0 mi away/95 ft/64 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Mount Vernon 7.5 SWAL-MB-105
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.1 mi away/266 ft/235 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bay MinetteBAYA1
At a cooperative observer's station/19.2 mi away/289 ft/258 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.8 mi from Mount Vernon, Alabama. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 100 ft, broken at 5,000 ft; the ceiling is 5,000 ft; visibility 6 mi.
66.2 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 100 ft.
Calm.
The full report of Bay Minette, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.