Forecast New Mexico is the definitive portal for the Land of Enchantment's weather and climate — built to make the official National Weather Service forecast fast, clean, and highway-clear for all 33 counties, from the Four Corners to the Bootheel.
New Mexico's weather is decided by elevation and by one season. The state averages 5,700 feet, second only to Colorado, and it holds 10,000 feet of relief between the Bootheel and Wheeler Peak — six of the seven Merriam life zones, from Chihuahuan desert to alpine tundra, inside one state line. On top of that sits the North American Monsoon: from early July the flow reverses, moisture comes up from the Gulf of California, and a state that is otherwise the third-driest in the country gets half its annual rain in eight weeks of afternoon thunderstorms. Everything else — the fire season that ends when the monsoon breaks, the spring dust that closes I-10, the snowpack that feeds the Rio Grande — is arranged around those two facts. Forecast New Mexico is being built to tell that whole story, county by county, basin by basin.
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. New Mexico takes an adobe paper and a chamisa accent — the rabbitbrush that turns the whole high desert yellow-green every September. The Zia colours could not be used on the map: the red is the route shield the whole network is built on, and the yellow is already Wyoming's.
New Mexico is covered close-up by 11 region sites, each on its own subdomain of forecastnewmexico.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 New Mexico, not separate sites: /about on any of them lands back here.
New Mexico touches five states and all five are live: Forecast Colorado across the north, Forecast Arizona the length of the western line, Forecast Texas around the east and south to El Paso, Forecast Oklahoma at the western end of the Panhandle, and Forecast Utah at the one point of Four Corners — each tinted in its own accent on the hero map and clickable across the state line. The southern border is Mexico, which the network does not yet reach. 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, Nevada, Kentucky, Louisiana, Utah, Arkansas, Mississippi, Hawaii, Montana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Virginia, New England, Great Plains, Canada are all part of the same system.
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