McRoberts, Kentucky Weather
McRoberts, Kentucky — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for McRoberts, Letcher County.
Full aviation weather for McRoberts is published on the Lonesome Pine Airport (KLNP) page, 28 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. 3 airfields within reach of McRoberts 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 McRoberts: Pike County Airport Hatcher Field (KPBX) 40 km · Wendell H Ford Airport (KCPF) 56 km
Conditions reported at KLNP describe the airfield itself. Weather 28 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at McRoberts specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for McRoberts.
About McRoberts, Kentucky
McRoberts clings to the steep slopes of the Cumberland Mountains, a place where the sky feels both vast and intimately close. It lies 43.9 miles north of Marshall, TN (from Marshall, TN: bearing 359°T), and is situated 3.3 miles north-west of Jenkins. The terrain here is a testament to the region's geological drama, with hollows and ravines that carve deep into the earth, their sides cloaked in a dense, mixed hardwood forest. Sunlight, when it breaks through the canopy, falls in luminous shafts, illuminating the damp, moss-covered rocks and the intricate patterns of fallen leaves. The air carries the perpetual scent of pine and damp soil, a fragrance deepened by the recent passage of rain, and the distant murmur of water can be heard, a constant reminder of the small creeks that thread their way through the landscape. The houses, often built close to the narrow roads that follow the contours of the land, seem to be part of the mountain itself, their weathered paint and sturdy construction speaking of resilience. The story of McRoberts is inextricably linked to the coal that once pulsed through its veins. For generations, the rhythm of life here was dictated by the mine shafts that burrowed into the mountainside, a powerful engine that fueled both the local economy and the broader nation. The company store, now a quiet relic, once hummed with the activity of miners and their families, a central hub for goods and gossip. While the deep seams are largely depleted, the legacy of that era remains in the stoic character of its people, a blend of hard-won independence and a deep sense of community forged in shared labor and challenge. The landscape itself, scarred in places by past extraction but also vigorously re-claimed by nature, tells a silent, powerful narrative of boom and bust, of human endeavor against the formidable, enduring beauty of Appalachia.
Live animated radar for McRoberts 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 | McRoberts, Letcher County, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 37.207604°N, 82.671823°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 41835 |
| Area Code | 606 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This McRoberts, Kentucky Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for McRoberts, 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 McRoberts includes coordinates 37.207604°N, 82.671823°W, situated in Letcher County. ZIP code 41835. Telephone area code: 606. 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.
