Burn Ban in Effect. All outdoor burning is prohibited in Franklin County.
The region had the 15th warmest and the 30th warmest average low October on record in the past 153 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration office in Shreveport, LA.
Mount Vernon’s official weather station concluded the month of October with an average high temperature of 82 degrees, an average low of 55 degrees, and a total of 2.39 inches of rainfall. The averages were topped by five days of 90 or 91-degree high temperatures. Lows of 30 degrees were recorded on Oct. 17 and 18, and a record low of 27 degrees was listed on the morning of Oct. 19. The previous low for the area on that date was 32 degrees recorded in 1948. The rain received locally came on two days early in the month and was -1.37 inches below the 3.08 average rainfall for the Shreveport, LA. reporting region.
Weekly Weather Report Oct. 25 thru 31, 2026
The weather information given below was recorded at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's official weather station in Mount Vernon for the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. on the day listed for the period of Sunday, Oct. 11, through Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. Temperatures are recorded to the nearest Fahrenheit degree, while precipitation is recorded to one-hundredth of an inch.
