Forecast Kansas is the definitive portal for the Sunflower State's weather and climate — built to make the official National Weather Service forecast fast, clean, and highway-clear for all 105 counties, from the Missouri bluffs at Wyandotte to Mount Sunflower on the Colorado line.
Kansas is the state the rest of the country pictures when it pictures a tornado, and it earns it: the dryline sets up over the western third almost every spring afternoon, the supercells go up on it, and the ground east of them is flat enough to watch it happen. But the more important number is the rainfall gradient. Kansas loses about twenty-five inches of annual precipitation between the Missouri line and the Colorado line — the steepest gradient in the lower 48 — so the eastern counties are humid and wooded, the western counties are semi-arid shortgrass over the Ogallala, and the wheat, the ranching and the aquifer all sort themselves along that line. Forecast Kansas is being built to tell that whole story — county by county, region by region.
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. Kansas takes a dry-grass limestone paper and an aquifer teal accent, for the water under the High Plains — its own note in the network.
Kansas is covered close-up by 13 region sites, each on its own subdomain of forecastkansas.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 Kansas, not separate sites: /about on any of them lands back here.
Kansas has four live neighbours: Forecast Missouri the length of the eastern line, Forecast Oklahoma across the south, Forecast Colorado on the western line, and Forecast Nebraska across the north — each tinted in its own accent on the hero map and clickable across the state line. Forecast Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Maine, Colorado, California, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Carolinas, Alaska, Dakotas, Arizona, Missouri, Tennessee, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Mexico, Nevada, Kentucky, Louisiana, Utah, Arkansas, Mississippi, Hawaii, Montana, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Virginia, New England, Great Plains, Canada are all part of the same system.
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