Forecast Kentucky is the definitive portal for the Bluegrass State's weather and climate — built to make the official National Weather Service forecast fast, clean, and highway-clear for all 120 counties, from the Mississippi at Wickliffe to the crest of Black Mountain.
Kentucky is 425 miles of weather laid end to end, and I-64 crosses all of it. Seven states touch it, and the Ohio River runs 664 miles along the top — the longest stretch of river border any state has. The Purchase in the west is Delta flatland that takes the spring line first and sits over the New Madrid seismic zone. The cave country and the Bluegrass in the middle are limestone plateau, open and unsheltered, where Dixie Alley's storms arrive after dark and an ice storm can coat four hundred miles of fence in a night. The eastern coalfield is steep hollow where four inches of rain is not an advisory but a wall of water. Forecast Kentucky is built around that traverse.
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. Kentucky takes a cave-limestone paper and a bluegrass periwinkle accent, on Ohio Valley haze — the color Poa pratensis turns when a pasture is left to head out in May, which is what the region was named for.
Kentucky is covered close-up by 10 region sites, each on its own subdomain of forecastkentucky.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 Kentucky, not separate sites: /about on any of them lands back here.
Kentucky touches seven states, and six of them are live: Forecast Missouri across the Mississippi at the far western tip, Forecast Illinois and Forecast Indiana and Forecast Ohio along the Ohio River, Forecast Virginia over the Cumberlands and along the Big Sandy — which also covers West Virginia — and Forecast Tennessee the length of the southern line. Each is 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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