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Plaincast — the National Weather Service forecast, decoded into plain English
What is an Area Forecast Discussion?
Area Forecast Discussions are the real forecasts, written 3 to 4 times daily by NWS meteorologists reading the models and interpreting what they mean for your area. They offer far deeper insight than any weather app, but they're written in dense meteorological shorthand. Plaincast uses Anthropic's Claude to summarize them into plain English, side by side with the annotated original.
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 Cleveland, 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.
Messages
Showers and thunderstorms are expected across parts of Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania this evening into early tonight. Locally heavy rainfall, gusty winds and small hail is possible this evening.
Cooler weather with occasional lake effect rain showers continue across parts of Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania through early Tuesday.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible Wednesday night into Thursday.
This is the plain-text edition, decoded without AI so it loads anywhere. Read the whole Cleveland discussion at /o/CLE/, see what changed since the last one, or open The National Desk for where the weather is today.