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NWS Area Forecast Discussion

Long-form forecaster reasoning -- the synoptic setup, model disagreement and confidence behind the forecast -- issued by every NWS office that publishes an Area Forecast Discussion, including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa.

Agency

NWS

Update cadence

Every 6 hours

Category

Weather

What we ingest

The complete Area Forecast Discussion text as the issuing office published it, with the office identifier and the real issuance timestamp -- not the aviation-only excerpt, and not the time we happened to fetch it.

Where this feed reaches

A region on this list means we fetch it. It is not a promise of station density: a listed region can still have sparse or no reporting sites near a given airport. Where a feed does not reach a region at all, this page says so instead of showing an empty panel.

  • Continental United States
  • Alaska
  • Hawaii
  • Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
  • Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands
  • American Samoa

How AeroCopilot uses it

AI references the AFD when building multi-day cross-country briefings.

Powers these features

The product surfaces below depend on this feed.

AI Copilot briefings

Upstream source: https://api.weather.gov/products/types/AFD

Cite this

Permalink

AeroCopilot — NWS Area Forecast Discussion. Data: NWS (https://api.weather.gov/products/types/AFD). https://www.aerocopilot.ai/data-sources/forecast-discussion.

Try the AI Copilot with this data

The Copilot has live access to NWS Area Forecast Discussion during every conversation.