Forecast Great Plains is the definitive portal for the weather and climate of the American heartland — built to make the official National Weather Service forecast fast, clean, and highway-clear for every one of the 376 counties of Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa, from the Continental Divide and the Hi-Line to the Mississippi at Dubuque.
Five states, one weather map. Nothing here stops at a state line: the dryline that fires supercells over western Kansas is the same air mass that reaches Iowa as a derecho two days later, the Alberta clipper that buries the Hi-Line runs the same track down to the Sandhills, and the chinook that takes Great Falls from −20 to +30 is the same westerly that closes I-80 at Elk Mountain. The Plains are wide enough to need five sites and coherent enough to be one map — so the region has a hub, and each state has its own site inside it.
The look borrows from the American Interstate system — the reflective paper, the green guide signs, the blue service signs, the brown recreation signs, and the red-white-and-blue route shields — set in Overpass, the typeface drawn from the Highway Gothic lettering on those signs. The Great Plains take a dry-grass paper and a wheat gold accent, on ripe hard red winter wheat — their own note in the network.
Great Plains is covered close-up by 5 region sites, each on its own subdomain of forecastgreatplains.com — the same maps, the same live radar and the same climate record as this site, drawn to one metro or region instead of the whole state, with a page for every city in it. They are part of Forecast Great Plains, not separate sites: /about on any of them lands back here.
The Great Plains are bounded by Forecast Dakotas to the north, Forecast Minnesota and Forecast Wisconsin across the Mississippi, Forecast Illinois and Forecast Missouri across the river to the east and southeast, Forecast Oklahoma to the south, Forecast Colorado in the notch between Wyoming and Kansas, Forecast Idaho over the Divide from Montana at Monida and Lost Trail, and Forecast Canada across Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia — each tinted in its own accent on the hero map and clickable from it. Inside the region, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa each have a site on their own subdomain. The rest of the Forecast <State> network is part of the same system.
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