Phelps, Kentucky Weather
Phelps, Kentucky — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Phelps, Pike County.
Full aviation weather for Phelps is published on the Southern West Virginia Regional Airport (KEBD) 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. 4 airfields within reach of Phelps 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 Phelps: Pike County Airport Hatcher Field (KPBX) 37 km · Big Sandy Regional Airport (KSJS) 50 km · Tazewell County Airport (KJFZ) 59 km
Conditions reported at KEBD describe the airfield itself. Weather 19 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Phelps specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Phelps.
About Phelps, Kentucky
Phelps exhales a quiet breath into the Kentucky hills, a scattering of homes clinging to the folds of the land like moss to ancient stone. It lies 63.4 miles north of Bristol, TN (from Bristol, TN: bearing 2°T), and is situated 7.6 miles south of Matewan. The terrain here is a study in patient erosion, where the mountains have softened their edges over millennia, leaving behind rounded peaks cloaked in a verdant, almost somber, green. Creeks, silver threads in the shadowed hollows, murmur their secrets to the wind, their waters carrying the scent of damp earth and pine. The sky, when it breaks free of the forested slopes, can be a vast, indifferent blue, or a bruised, dramatic canvas at dusk, painting the ridges in strokes of fading ochre and deep violet. The story of Phelps is etched not in grand monuments, but in the persistent spirit of its people and the echoes of industry that once thrummed through its valleys. For generations, the rhythm of this place was dictated by the earth’s hidden veins, by the dark, glittering promise of coal. Though the mines that defined its economy have largely fallen silent, the memory of that labor, the grit and the communal effort, still clings to the air like the lingering scent of woodsmoke. Local life here unfolds at a pace dictated by the sun’s arc and the changing seasons, a gentle ebb and flow where neighbors know each other’s names and the silence of the mountains is a constant, comforting presence.
Live animated radar for Phelps 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 | Phelps, Pike County, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 37.512885°N, 82.150133°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 41553 |
| Area Code | 859 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Phelps, Kentucky Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Phelps, 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 Phelps includes coordinates 37.512885°N, 82.150133°W, situated in Pike County. ZIP code 41553. Telephone area code: 859. 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.
