Mount Pleasant, Texas Weather
Mount Pleasant, Texas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mount Pleasant, Taylor County.
Full aviation weather for Mount Pleasant is published on the Dyess Air Force Base (KDYS) page, 11 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 4 airfields within reach of Mount Pleasant have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Mount Pleasant: Abilene Regional Airport (KABI) 27 km · Avenger Field (KSWW) 47 km · Winters Municipal Airport (K77F) 50 km
Conditions reported at KDYS describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mount Pleasant specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mount Pleasant.
About Mount Pleasant, Texas
Mount Pleasant unfolds across a landscape of rolling West Texas terrain, where the sun, a persistent sovereign, casts long, generous shadows across wide-open spaces. It lies 14.4 miles west-south-west of Abilene, TX (from Abilene, TX: bearing 256°T), and is situated 5.6 miles south-south-east of Merkel. The land here is a study in muted earth tones, ochre and sienna yielding to the pale green of hardy grasses that cling to the gentle slopes. Sturdy mesquite trees, their branches reaching like gnarled fingers, offer sparse but welcome shade, their leaves rustling with a dry, whispery sound in the ever-present breeze. The air itself often carries a faint, clean scent, a mixture of sun-baked earth and distant, unseen wildflowers, a testament to the resilience of life in this semi-arid expanse. The sky above is a vast, often breathtaking dome, its blues deepening to indigo as day gives way to twilight, the stars emerging with an almost startling clarity. The history of Mount Pleasant is as much about enduring the elements as it is about human endeavor. Settled by pioneers drawn to the promise of fertile soil, its early economy was rooted deeply in agriculture, with cotton fields once stretching towards the horizon, their white bolls a fleeting, ephemeral snow against the summer heat. Though the agricultural landscape has shifted, the spirit of cultivation persists, now often seen in the careful tending of livestock and the cultivation of feed crops that sustain the region. The legacy of those early days can still be felt in the sturdy, unpretentious architecture of its older buildings, their brickwork weathered by decades of sun and wind. Life in Mount Pleasant moves at a steady, unhurried pace, a rhythm dictated by the seasons and the quiet hum of local commerce, where neighborly connections form the bedrock of community life.
Live animated radar for Mount Pleasant and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Mount Pleasant, Taylor County, Texas |
| Coordinates | 32.39707°N, 99.971761°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 79536, 75455 |
| Area Code | 806, 972, 469 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mount Pleasant, Texas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mount Pleasant, Texas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Mount Pleasant includes coordinates 32.397070°N, 99.971761°W, situated in Taylor County. ZIP code 79536, 75455. Telephone area code: 806, 972, 469. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
