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 Sioux Falls, 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.
Temperatures will remain near to below average for this time of year through Saturday, with warmer temperatures returning for much of next week.
There are no meaningful precipitation chances expected through the weekend and first half of next week.
A more active weather pattern is looking more likely from the middle of next week into next weekend.
A clear and nearly calm night continues, and thankfully we do not have snow cover because temperatures are already chillier than we have seen recently. Most locations have fallen into the lower 20s as of 3 AM, with a few readings in the upper teens. Other than maintaining these early morning temperatures below the the blend-of-models forecast and most other guidance, the forecast remains on track with dry and seasonably cool conditions expected through the first half of the weekend.
This is the plain-text edition, decoded without AI so it loads anywhere. Read the whole Sioux Falls discussion at /o/FSD/, see what changed since the last one, or open The National Desk for where the weather is today.
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