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 Spokane, 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.
Showers return over the weekend. Southeast WA and the Central ID Panhandle will see the highest precipitation amounts with a 60-90 percent chance of receiving more than 0.25 inches of rainfall.
Warming and drying trend Monday through Thursday as the weekend system moves out, making room for a ridge of high pressure to build over the region.
Temperatures Friday will be around 10 degrees cooler than Thursday's with dry weather and light winds. Saturday and Sunday, a low pressure system will bring widespread chances of precipitation, isolated thunderstorm chances and another round of gusty winds. Monday through Thursday, conditions will trend warmer and drier as a ridge of high pressure builds over the region.
This is the plain-text edition, decoded without AI so it loads anywhere. Read the whole Spokane discussion at /o/OTX/, see what changed since the last one, or open The National Desk for where the weather is today.
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