Lancaster, KY Weather Forecast
Garrard County, Kentucky
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Lancaster, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Lancaster, KY at a glance
Lancaster is home to about 4,050 people in Garrard County, across 2.5 square miles. It ranks 91st by population of 123 places in Kentucky with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Stanford, 7 miles away.
- County
- Garrard County
- Population
- 4,050 2023 est.
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 1,605
- Forecast point
- 37.6170°N, 84.5818°W
How well can the network see Lancaster?
The nearest Doppler radar is KJKL (Jackson, KY), to the E. Its lowest scan passes about 5,600 ft above Lancaster. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Lancaster can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is KRGA (Richmond/Central Kentucky Rgnl). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Lancaster
- Stanford, KY7 mi
- Danville, KY11 mi
- Berea, KY16 mi
- Richmond, KY17 mi
- Harrodsburg, KY18 mi
- Wilmore, KY19 mi
- Nicholasville, KY19 mi
- Lexington-Fayette, KY30 mi
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