Forecast Arkansas is the definitive portal for the Natural State’s weather and climate — built to make the official National Weather Service forecast fast, clean and highway-clear for all 75 counties, from the Missouri line to the Louisiana line and from the Oklahoma border to the Mississippi River.
Arkansas is the only state that is highlands on one diagonal and delta on the other, and the weather changes at the line. Northwest of a seam that runs roughly Fort Smith to Little Rock to Pocahontas, the Ozarks and Ouachitas rise to 2,753 feet at Mount Magazine and turn every storm into terrain; southeast of it the land falls to the Mississippi alluvial plain and does not rise again. Three hazards follow from that. Tornadoes: the state sits at the western hinge of Dixie Alley, where the season runs twice a year and the storms come at night. Ice: Arkansas is the country’s freezing-rain crossroads, and December 2000 is still the benchmark. Water: four major rivers drain through it, and the Delta has nowhere to put the rain. Forecast Arkansas is built around those.
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. Arkansas takes a limestone-bluff paper and a shortleaf-pine green accent, on Ozark haze — the colour of Pinus echinata, the state tree, which still covers more of Arkansas than anything else does.
Arkansas is covered close-up by 1 region site, on its own subdomain of forecastarkansas.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 Arkansas, not separate sites: /about on any of them lands back here.
Arkansas touches six states and all six are live: Forecast Missouri across the north line, Forecast Tennessee and Forecast Mississippi across the river to the east, Forecast Louisiana to the south, and Forecast Texas and Forecast Oklahoma west — each tinted in its 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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