11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Partly cloudy
3°
Feels like 1°
Wind↑ ENE 10 km/h
Gusts18 km/h
Humidity 61 %
Afternoon
Overcast
8°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ E 14 km/h
Humidity 57 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Drizzle
5°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ ENE 11 km/h
Gusts20 km/h
Humidity 94 %
💧 0.8 mm
Afternoon
Light rain
5°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ NNE 15 km/h
Gusts22 km/h
Humidity 95 %
💧 2.9 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Overcast
4°
Feels like 1°
Wind↑ NW 13 km/h
Gusts28 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Clear sky
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ NW 15 km/h
Humidity 61 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
4°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ W 11 km/h
Humidity 92 %
Lexington-Fayette forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +8.3° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Lexington-Fayette 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 82 mm and 128 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 24 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (20 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
5 °C
−3 °C
97 mm
Feb
8 °C
−1 °C
100 mm
Mar
13 °C
3 °C
116 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
109 mm
Aug
29 °C
19 °C
82 mm
Sep
26 °C
15 °C
91 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 38.05° N, 84.46° 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-Fayette: 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-Fayette
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Lexington-Fayette, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Lexington-Fayette
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 17:08 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-Fayette
Curious about the weather in Lexington-Fayette 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-Fayette weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Lexington-Fayette, 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 9 °C (feels like 8 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.
Expected range today: 9 °C to 24 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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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