Plaincast
What the forecast actually says — NWS Area Forecast Discussions, decoded into plain English.
Plaincast decodes the National Weather Service's Area Forecast Discussion — the real forecast, written 3 to 4 times a day by the meteorologist on shift — into plain English. The discussion is where a forecaster explains their reasoning: which models disagree, what they are watching, and how confident they are. Below is the current edition for Detroit, with its shorthand expanded. The full experience — an AI plain-English summary beside the annotated original — loads with JavaScript, and every one of the 68 forecast offices has its own edition.
Lake effect showers return today with some periods of snow mixing in, mainly during the morning hours.
Minor slushy coating of accumulation is possible across parts of the Thumb and St. Clair River vicinity.
Showers steadily shift offshore tonight and Saturday, then turning drier and warm next week.
This is the plain-text edition, decoded without AI so it loads anywhere. Read the whole Detroit discussion at /o/DTX/, see what changed since the last one, or open The National Desk for where the weather is today.
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