Forecast Nevada is the definitive portal for the Silver State's weather and climate — built to make the official National Weather Service forecast fast, clean, and highway-clear for all 16 counties and Carson City, from the Colorado River and the Mojave up the length of the Great Basin to the Black Rock and the Oregon line.
Nevada is the driest state in the country and the most mountainous, and those two facts are the same fact. The Sierra Nevada takes the Pacific storm track apart on its way east, and what falls as ten feet of snow at Donner falls as nine inches a year on the basin floor behind it — then the ranges start again, three hundred of them between the Sierra and the Wasatch, each one making its own weather and its own rain shadow for the next. So the state is not one climate but a corrugation of them: Boundary Peak stands 13,147 feet over valleys that see single-digit rainfall, Wheeler Peak holds bristlecones that were old before Rome, and Las Vegas, in the deepest shadow of all, has warmed faster than almost any city in America. Forecast Nevada is built around that basin-and-range grain rather than the flat map of 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. Nevada takes an alkali-playa paper and a sagebrush silver accent — the state flower, and the one color that covers the whole Great Basin from the Sierra Front to the Utah line, silver-green at every elevation the state has — its own note in the network.
Nevada is covered close-up by 2 region sites, each on its own subdomain of forecastnevada.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 Nevada, not separate sites: /about on any of them lands back here.
Nevada has five live neighbors: Forecast California over the Sierra crest at Tahoe and down the Mojave to Primm, Forecast Oregon across the Black Rock at Denio, Forecast Idaho at Jackpot and Owyhee, Forecast Utah across the salt flats where I-80 leaves West Wendover on the other half of the same main street, and Forecast Arizona at the Hoover Dam bypass and Laughlin — all tinted in their own accent on the hero map and clickable from it. The rest of the Forecast <State> network is part of the same system.
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