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Temperatures rebound today with dry conditions.
Chance of showers and thunderstorms on Saturday, especially across northern Oklahoma.
Hot, above-normal temperatures are expected for the weekend into early next week.
Plaincast — the National Weather Service forecast, decoded into plain English
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.
Short Term
(Through Friday) Issued at 225 AM CDT Fri Sep 11 2026
Isolated showers and thunderstorms are possible early this morning across southeast Oklahoma on the western periphery of isentropic ascent.
Otherwise, light and variable winds are ongoing this morning in the wake of yesterdays cold front that is currently dissipating (frontolysis). With the light winds, clearing skies, boundary layer humidity near 100%, and yesterdays rainfall, some fog has developed this morning. Fog will likely continue to develop-- especially across locations that received appreciable rainfall yesterday (i.e., north central Oklahoma and south central Oklahoma).
Abundant sunshine, a return to southerly winds, and the eastward expansion of a low-level thermal ridge back into the Southern Plains will result in a return to hotter weather this afternoon. High temperatures are expected to range from the upper 80s (north central Oklahoma) to the near 100 deg F (southwest Oklahoma and western north Texas). These temperatures are 5 to 10 deg F above normal for mid-September.
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