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At a river or reservoir gauge/4.9 mi away/46 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Monte Alto until 7 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 74° after 88° today.
Now. Monte Alto is 71° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 67°, so the air feels oppressive. Light air from the north-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 85° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 91°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:32 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 33 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Monte Alto, Texas.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Brownsville-McAllen (TX), 21 miles off.
Highest moderate, today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 7 instruments nearest Monte Alto, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
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At a river or reservoir gauge/4.9 mi away/46 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
EdinburgEBG
At an airfield/10.4 mi away/79 ft/24 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Edinburg 17 NNE12987
At a climate reference station/11.5 mi away/64 ft/9 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
WeslacoS2205
At a soil climate station/15.0 mi away/57 ft/2 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW3809GW3809
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.1 mi away/109 ft/54 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
La Villa 0.3 ENETX-HDL-76
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/68 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
EdinburgEDIT2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.1 mi away/105 ft/50 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.4 mi from Monte Alto, Texas. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
68.0 F with a dew point of 66.2 F, 94 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 400 ft up.
From the north (360 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Edinburg, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Edinburg (EDIT2), 12.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.