Plum Springs, Kentucky Weather
Plum Springs, Kentucky — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Plum Springs, Warren County.
Full aviation weather for Plum Springs is published on the Bowling Green Warren County Regional Airport (KBWG) page, 7 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 Plum Springs 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 Plum Springs: Glasgow Municipal Airport (KGLW) 38 km · Grayson County Airport (KM20) 44 km · Russellville Logan County Airport (K4M7) 45 km · Portland Municipal Airport (K1M5) 48 km
Conditions reported at KBWG describe the airfield itself. Weather 7 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Plum Springs specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Plum Springs.
About Plum Springs, Kentucky
Plum Springs lies in a land where the rolling hills of South Central Kentucky begin to soften their contours, yielding to a terrain more forgiving, though still bearing the marks of ancient watercourses. It lies 3.9 miles east-north-east of Bowling Green, KY (from Bowling Green, KY: bearing 61°T), and is situated 9.8 miles north-north-east of Plano. The landscape here is a gentle tapestry of agricultural fields, stitched together by hedgerows and the occasional stand of mature oak and hickory, their branches reaching skyward like gnarled fingers. Sunlight, when it breaks through the humid air of a summer afternoon, paints the pastures in hues of emerald and gold, a light that feels thick and warm against the skin. The air itself often carries the faint, sweet scent of ripening corn or the earthy perfume of damp soil after a rain, a constant reminder of the land's fertility. The scattered homes and barns, often painted in muted tones that blend with the surroundings, speak of a quiet, enduring presence, a settled life lived in concert with the seasons. The history of Plum Springs is intrinsically tied to the discovery of its mineral springs, a resource that once promised a different kind of prosperity than the agricultural endeavors that came to define it. While the grand hotels and sanatoriums of its past have long since faded, the legacy of those healing waters lingers in the very name of Plum Springs. The local economy, like much of rural Kentucky, leans heavily on the land, with cattle grazing on the verdant slopes and crops like tobacco and soybeans still playing a role, though the economic landscape is always in subtle flux. There's a palpable sense of continuity here, a quiet pride in the self-sufficiency fostered by generations who learned to draw sustenance and purpose from this particular corner of Warren County, a place where the past whispers on the breeze carrying the scent of honeysuckle and hay.
Live animated radar for Plum Springs 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 | Plum Springs, Warren County, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 37.018376°N, 86.381377°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 42101 |
| Area Code | 270 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Plum Springs, Kentucky Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Plum Springs, 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 Plum Springs includes coordinates 37.018376°N, 86.381377°W, situated in Warren County. ZIP code 42101. Telephone area code: 270. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
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.
