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 Oklahoma City, 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.
Cooler and sunny today; low chance for a freeze in northern Oklahoma Saturday morning.
Widespread rain event expected from Saturday to Sunday, with most areas seeing at least 1/4 inch of rain and a maximum swath of around 1 inch of rain expected.
Chilly on Sunday; slow warm-up thereafter.
(Through Friday) Issued at 1215 AM CST Fri Nov 13 2026
Near-term forecast impacts: Cooler this morning, but another beautiful day otherwise.
Regional surface observations tonight show a much cooler airmass located across the mid-Mississippi Valley beneath a strong belt of northerly 500 mb flow. Pressure rises in the vicinity of Lake Winnipeg are driving that airmass southward through Iowa and Missouri, and northeast surface winds here will bring the airmass in the form of a backdoor cold front. It's worth noting that the trend in short-range guidance has been for the airmass to not be quite as cold as previously anticipated; still, the difference will be noticeable compared to the recent warm weather.
The impact of this will be to create a gradient in temperatures from southwest to northeast once the sun comes up. In north central Oklahoma, continued cold advection (even with winds remaining pretty light) will keep highs in the low-to-mid 50s. In western north Texas, surface winds will be closer to due easterly, and highs should get well into the 60s. Mostly sunny skies continue through the morning, with high clouds arriving late.
This is the plain-text edition, decoded without AI so it loads anywhere. Read the whole Oklahoma City discussion at /o/OUN/, see what changed since the last one, or open The National Desk for where the weather is today.
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