Big Clifty, Kentucky Weather
Big Clifty, Kentucky — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Big Clifty, Grayson County.
Full aviation weather for Big Clifty is published on the Grayson County Airport (KM20) page, 19 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. 5 airfields within reach of Big Clifty 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 Big Clifty: Addington Field / Elizabethtown Regional Airport (KEKX) 26 km · Breckinridge County Airport (KI93) 37 km · Godman Army Air Field (KFTK) 43 km · Glasgow Municipal Airport (KGLW) 60 km
Conditions reported at KM20 describe the airfield itself. Weather 19 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Big Clifty specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Big Clifty.
About Big Clifty, Kentucky
Big Clifty rests in a landscape shaped by the patient carving of water and wind. It lies 19.1 miles west-south-west of Elizabethtown, KY (from Elizabethtown, KY: bearing 238°T), and is situated 8.9 miles east-north-east of Leitchfield. Rolling hills, cloaked in the deep greens of oak and hickory, give way to a terrain that dips and rises with a quiet, persistent energy. The air here, especially in the lingering warmth of late afternoon, carries a faint, earthy perfume, a blend of damp soil and sun-baked pine needles. Streams, often no more than a murmur, thread their way through the valleys, their banks soft with moss and shaded by the overhang of ancient trees. The sky above Big Clifty often stretches wide, a canvas for clouds that drift with a deliberate, unhurried grace, their shadows sweeping across the undulating land like slow breaths. The story of Big Clifty is written in the soil and the memory of its people, a narrative woven from agriculture and the rugged independence of its pioneers. For generations, the land has yielded its bounty, supporting families through the cycles of planting and harvest, a testament to enduring resilience. While the whispers of coal mining once echoed faintly through these hollows, the true heart of Big Clifty has always been its deep connection to the earth and the quiet strength of its rural character. There are no grand monuments here, no towering structures to draw the eye, but rather a profound sense of place that settles into the bones, a feeling of belonging that is as constant as the changing seasons.
Live animated radar for Big Clifty 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 | Big Clifty, Grayson County, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 37.545613°N, 86.153581°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 42712 |
| Area Code | 270 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Big Clifty, Kentucky Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Big Clifty, Kentucky, 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 Big Clifty includes coordinates 37.545613°N, 86.153581°W, situated in Grayson County. ZIP code 42712. Telephone area code: 270. Timezone: Eastern Time (America/New_York).
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.
