Plaincast — the National Weather Service forecast, 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 Grand Forks, 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.

Area Forecast Discussion · National Weather Service Grand Forks (FGF) · issued Friday, November 13 at 5:27 AM CST.

Messages

Temperatures will run near normal through the weekend before warming up early next week.

Update

An area of low clouds spreading west in an area with easterly winds at 925 mb 5-10 knots. Clouds approaching BDE, expectation is that may may move west a bit more then breakup after sunrise. Few clouds also noted on the west side of the Lower and Upper Red Lakes due to a light east wind in the boundary layer over a warmer lake water. Otherwise skies clear and calm conditions RRV and NW MN and WC MN with temperatures in the clear and calm areas down into the 12-15F range. Definitely the coldest morning of the fall season.

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