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 Pittsburgh, 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 Pittsburgh (PBZ) · issued Saturday, October 24 at 12:28 PM EDT.

What has changed

No changes to the forecast package or messaging.

Messages

Above normal temperature with dry weather highly likely until at least late next week.

This is the plain-text edition, decoded without AI so it loads anywhere. Read the whole Pittsburgh discussion at /o/PBZ/, see what changed since the last one, or open The National Desk for where the weather is today.

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