What this shows
The Upper Missouri River Basin is divided into ACE grid cells, each sized to hold one Mesonet station. A cell is shaded by how far along its station is: operational, scheduled for a given install year, under construction, or still available. Orange dots mark the actual station locations. Cell assignments are provisional and change as siting work proceeds.
How to use it
- Search — press / to jump there; ↑/↓ + Enter to pick.
- Legend — click a row to hide a status; double-click (or Shift+Enter) to isolate it.
- Layers — chips toggle station dots and the county / watershed / tribal-land reference overlays.
- Hover a cell for its status; click for station details and a dashboard link.
- The tag button toggles grid cell labels.
- Esc closes any open popup.
Share or bookmark
The URL reflects every choice — copy it from the address bar. ?cell=<id> deep-links a grid cell and ?station=<id> a station.
Data
Station status is read live from the Montana Climate Office station registry on every load. Grid geometry is packaged with this page; county, watershed, and tribal-land overlays stream from the MCO data service when you turn them on.
