Synoptic Intelligence™
Your Local Forecast Office, In Your Own Briefing
Four times a day a meteorologist at your NWS office writes out what they think the weather is doing and why. PlaneWX now reads all 123 of those discussions and tells you what your office said — the boundary they're tracking, their timing, and their own sentence, quoted verbatim. It shows up on your home airport card, in your morning digest, and in how your briefings frame frontal timing.
New — Your Local Forecast Office on the Home Airport Card
- Names the boundary your office is tracking and where it stands: approaching, moving through, or already past
- Shows the forecaster's own sentence, checked against the published discussion before display — if the text isn't in the product, the quote is dropped rather than shown
- Carries the issuance age, and shifts to past tense once a discussion has been superseded instead of presenting stale reasoning as current
- The office name links to that office's own weather.gov page so you can read the whole discussion
- Available on every plan, including Free
New — Frontal Timing in Briefings Comes From Your Office
- Frontal timing now comes from the office responsible for your airport rather than a generic assumption about how fast fronts move
- A front's position is resolved against your departure time, not against the moment the briefing runs — a front approaching this afternoon may already be past by tomorrow's departure, and the briefing says so
- Departure window suggestions are framed around the real boundary — leaving ahead of it, or waiting for it to clear
- Your morning digest carries the same read, so you have it before you open the app
Fixed — A Front That Never Arrives No Longer Reads as Arriving
- Forecasters often write about boundaries they expect to stall, weaken, or slide by to the north — a front near your airport is not a front coming to your airport
- We now read whether the office actually expects it to reach their area, and say so plainly when they don't
- Previously a card could report a front "still to come" while quoting the same forecaster saying it would stall short of the area — a contradiction that's now gone
- In that case your briefing describes the day-to-day airmass change instead of putting you on a side of a boundary that never passes
Fixed — 45 Airports Could Not Reach Their Forecast Office
- Our office list was missing 13 real NWS offices and contained identifiers for offices that don't exist — Omaha among them, mapped to a code the NWS doesn't use
- Airports served by the missing offices had no discussion available at all; they do now
- Coverage is all 123 offices issuing Area Forecast Discussions: the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa
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