Lk Cypress Spgs nr Mount Vernon07344484
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
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Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Mount Vernon until 1 AM Saturday. 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 23 degrees cooler: a high of 66° after 89° today.
Now. Mount Vernon is 72° and mostly clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 65°, so the air feels humid and sticky. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 57° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 84°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 11 hours 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Mount Vernon, Texas.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Tyler-Longview-Marshall (TX), 58 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 28, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 7 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mount Vernon, TexasReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Mount Vernon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Lk Cypress Spgs nr Mount Vernon07344484
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.8 mi away/-/- ft from here
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At an airfield/16.3 mi away/364 ft/128 ft below here
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Citizen station EW4423EW4423
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.6 mi away/489 ft/3 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Mount Vernon 0.9 NNWTX-FK-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/491 ft/1 ft below here
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Mount VernonMTVT2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.9 mi away/453 ft/39 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.3 mi from Mount Vernon, Texas. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 6,000 ft, scattered at 7,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
76.6 F with a dew point of 65.0 F, 67 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 6,000 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 17 mph.
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Snow on the ground
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.