Salt Lick, Kentucky Weather
Salt Lick, Kentucky — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Salt Lick, Bath County.
Full aviation weather for Salt Lick is published on the Morehead-Rowan County Clyde A. Thomas Regional Airport (KSYM) page, 11 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 Salt Lick 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 Salt Lick: Mount Sterling Montgomery County Airport (KIOB) 33 km · Stanton Airport (KI50) 36 km · Fleming Mason Airport (KFGX) 48 km
Conditions reported at KSYM describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Salt Lick specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Salt Lick.
About Salt Lick, Kentucky
Salt Lick rests in a hollow of Bath County, where the land begins its patient, rolling ascent toward the Appalachian foothills. It lies 45.1 miles north-east of Richmond, KY (from Richmond, KY: bearing 55°T), and is situated 8.3 miles east-south-east of Owingsville. Here, the sky is a vast, unhurried canvas, painted with the subtle greys of approaching rain or the sharp, crystalline blues of a clear afternoon. The landscape is a mosaic of deep green pastures, punctuated by stands of oak and maple that blaze with transient color each autumn, their branches reaching like gnarled fingers toward the sun. The air, especially in the early morning, carries the damp, earthy scent of dew-kissed soil and the fainter, sweet perfume of honeysuckle clinging to weathered fences. A quiet stillness pervades Salt Lick, broken only by the distant lowing of cattle or the occasional chirp of a cardinal in the dense foliage, a testament to the enduring, unassuming beauty of this pocket of Kentucky. The history of Salt Lick is as deeply rooted as the ancient trees that guard its edges, a story whispered in the worn boards of its few remaining storefronts and the quiet dignity of its older homes. For generations, the economy here has been tied to the land, first with small farms yielding tobacco and corn, and later, as the timber industry ebbed and flowed, leaving behind the occasional stump as a silent marker. While no longer a bustling hub, Salt Lick retains a sense of enduring purpose, a place where life moves at a tempo dictated by the seasons rather than the clock. The local general store, a fixture of the community, serves as more than just a place for provisions; it's a gathering point, a repository of local lore, where conversations drift like woodsmoke and the community's pulse can still be felt, faint but steady.
Live animated radar for Salt Lick 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 | Salt Lick, Bath County, Kentucky |
| Coordinates | 38.120081°N, 83.614635°W |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 40371 |
| Area Code | 502 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Salt Lick, Kentucky Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Salt Lick, 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 Salt Lick includes coordinates 38.120081°N, 83.614635°W, situated in Bath County. ZIP code 40371. 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.
