Plaincast — the National Weather Service forecast, 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 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.

Area Forecast Discussion · National Weather Service Cleveland (CLE) · issued Saturday, October 24 at 7:32 AM EDT.

What has changed

Dense fog has taken hold in Northwest Ohio and a Dense Fog Advisory has been issued until 10 AM. Any frost and freeze concerns are becoming more limited this morning and Sunday morning to just areas that are no longer in the growing season in Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania.

Messages

Dry, seasonable weather will continue through the first half of next week. Dense fog will impact Northwest Ohio this morning. Frost and freeze chances the next two mornings will be limited to Northeast Ohio and Northwest PA, where the growing season has ended.

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.