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 San Diego, 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.
Drying and gradual cooling is expected through the weekend with HeatRisk for most areas below Moderate by the end of the weekend. Patchy night and morning coastal low clouds will increase in coverage and spread locally into the western valleys at times for the weekend into early next week. High pressure to the east is expected to bring a warming trend for the latter half of next week.
FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE. SAN DIEGO. WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES.
This is the plain-text edition, decoded without AI so it loads anywhere. Read the whole San Diego discussion at /o/SGX/, see what changed since the last one, or open The National Desk for where the weather is today.
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