11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ SSE 24 km/h
Gusts46 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 9.9 mm
Evening
Light rain
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ WSW 13 km/h
Gusts35 km/h
Humidity 94 %
💧 3.9 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind↑ W 13 km/h
Gusts22 km/h
Humidity 97 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Drizzle
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 94 %
💧 0.2 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ SSE 6 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Clear sky
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ SSE 11 km/h
Humidity 76 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind↑ S 21 km/h
Gusts51 km/h
Humidity 82 %
Lexington forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +7.7° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Lexington climate: what a normal year looks like
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −3 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 24 °C.
Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −3 °C in January.
From 14 h 48 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 31 min in late December.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 83 mm and 128 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 23 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (20 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
5 °C
−3 °C
98 mm
Feb
8 °C
−1 °C
101 mm
Mar
13 °C
3 °C
117 mm
Apr
19 °C
8 °C
128 mm
May
23 °C
14 °C
125 mm
Jun
28 °C
18 °C
114 mm
Jul
30 °C
20 °C
110 mm
Aug
29 °C
19 °C
83 mm
Sep
26 °C
15 °C
93 mm
Oct
20 °C
9 °C
88 mm
Nov
13 °C
4 °C
90 mm
Dec
7 °C
−1 °C
111 mm
Whole year
18 °C
9 °C
1,250 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.99° N, 84.48° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.
Air you breathe in Lexington: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.52µg/m³
PM102µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Lexington
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Lexington, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Lexington
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 17:09 Set 08:11
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/New_York); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Lexington
Curious about the weather in Lexington on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Lexington weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Lexington, Kentucky: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 24 °C (feels like 24 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.
Expected range today: 9 °C to 24 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.
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