Mount Washington, Kentucky Weather
Mount Washington, Kentucky — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery for Mount Washington, Bullitt County.
Full aviation weather for Mount Washington is published on the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (KSDF) page, 21 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. 6 airfields within reach of Mount Washington 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 Washington: Bowman Field (KLOU) 22 km · Samuels Field (KBRY) 26 km · Clark Regional Airport (KJVY) 39 km · Godman Army Air Field (KFTK) 41 km · Addington Field / Elizabethtown Regional Airport (KEKX) 52 km
Conditions reported at KSDF describe the airfield itself. Weather 21 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mount Washington specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
About Mount Washington, Kentucky
Mount Washington rises gently from the rolling Bluegrass landscape, its slopes softened by a verdant cloak of mature trees and fields that stretch out like rumpled velvet. It lies 10.0 miles south of Jeffersontown, KY (from Jeffersontown, KY: bearing 174°T), and is situated 7.7 miles east of Hillview. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a scent of turned earth and distant hay, a quiet promise of the day’s end. Sunlight, filtered through the broad leaves of oak and maple, paints shifting patterns on the winding country roads, imbuing the scene with a mellow, almost drowsy luminescence. The terrain, a mix of gentle inclines and broader, flatter expanses, feels established, as if it has always been this way, a comfortable embrace of nature’s slow hand. The economic pulse of Mount Washington has long been tied to the fertile land, with agriculture a quiet but persistent thread in its story. Generations have worked these soils, coaxing forth crops and tending livestock under the wide Kentucky sky. More recently, the proximity to larger urban centers has brought new opportunities, a subtle shift in the rhythm of daily life, yet the echoes of a simpler past remain. The Salt River, a silver ribbon winding its way nearby, has historically been a vital artery, shaping settlement and commerce. It’s a place where the past whispers in the rustle of corn stalks and the present hums with a steady, unpretentious energy, a testament to enduring roots.
Live animated radar for Mount Washington 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.
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| Location | Mount Washington, Bullitt County, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 38.050063°N, 85.545788°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 40047 |
| Area Code | 502 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mount Washington, Kentucky Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mount Washington, 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 Mount Washington includes coordinates 38.050063°N, 85.545788°W, situated in Bullitt County. ZIP code 40047. Telephone area code: 502. 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.
