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 Detroit, 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.
The potential exists for dense fog development Sunday and Monday mornings. Any patchy/dense fog is expected to dissipate by around 10 am each morning.
High temperatures increase to around 70 on Sunday before a dry cold front drops us back into the upper 50s to low 60s Monday and Tuesday.
Dry conditions through the middle of next week.
This is the plain-text edition, decoded without AI so it loads anywhere. Read the whole Detroit discussion at /o/DTX/, see what changed since the last one, or open The National Desk for where the weather is today.
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