Forecast Notes

For iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch

The reasoning behind your forecast

Several times a day, the meteorologists at your National Weather Service office write down what they're watching, how sure they are, and why. Forecast Notes puts those notes in your pocket and on your wrist.

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Bulletins, made readable

Written by forecasters.
Formatted for people.

The Area Forecast Discussion is one of the best things the Weather Service publishes, and one of the hardest to read: hard-wrapped teletype text with dots and ampersands for punctuation. Forecast Notes keeps every word and fixes everything else.

As issued
.KEY MESSAGES...

- Another round of showers and even a couple
thunderstorms tonight
  into early Monday morning.

- Generally light snow accumulations in the
mountains, with minor
  travel impacts over some of the high passes
through early Monday
  morning.

- Warming trend and mostly dry much of
upcoming week.

&&

.DISCUSSION /Through Sunday/...
Issued at 136 PM MDT Sun Oct 25 2026

Satellite shows the upper level low over
northeast Utah, with a
couple shortwaves rotating around it. The most
impressive one was
now lifting quickly northward through central
and eastern New
In Forecast Notes

Denver/Boulder, CO

NWS BOU · Oct 25, 2026 at 12:37 PM (1h old)

KEY MESSAGES

  • Another round of showers and even a couple thunderstorms tonight into early Monday morning.
  • Generally light snow accumulations in the mountains, with minor travel impacts over some of the high passes through early Monday morning.
  • Warming trend and mostly dry much of upcoming week.

DISCUSSION /Through Sunday/

Issued at 136 PM MDT Sun Oct 25 2026

Satellite shows the upper level low over northeast Utah, with a couple shortwaves rotating around it. The most impressive one was now lifting quickly northward through central and eastern New Mexico…

Your forecast, explained

More than a five-day icon.

Icons and percentages tell you what. The discussion tells you why, and how much to trust it.

A discussion explaining snow totals and how confident the forecasters are
Hear it from the forecastersThe odds, the uncertainty, and what could still change.
The list of NWS offices with favorites at the top
Any office, or just yoursUse your location once to find your office, or pick any of them across the U.S. and its territories.
Flood Warnings shown above a discussion for Pueblo, Colorado
Local alerts, up topActive NWS alerts for your area appear right above the discussion.
A discussion in dark mode with its issue time and age
Know how fresh it isEvery discussion shows when it was issued and how old it is. freshagingold

Apple Watch

A full reader on your wrist.

Not a glance, the whole discussion. Scroll it with the Digital Crown, pull down for a newer one, and keep your office on your watch face.

The Key Messages section on Apple Watch
Read it allEvery section, sized for the wrist.
A watch face with a Forecast Notes complication
On your watch faceCircular, corner, inline or rectangular complications.
The Forecast Notes widget in the Smart Stack
In the Smart StackA dot appears when there's something new.
A discussion on iPad

Thoughtful details

Made for reading.

  • Read AloudListen to the discussion on iPhone and iPad in your device's built-in voice.

  • Works offlineRecent discussions stay on the device, and new ones are fetched in the background a few times a day.

  • FavoritesFollow the offices you care about: home, the cabin, the trailhead.

  • The original, one tap awayTables and lists keep their layout, and the raw bulletin is always there if you want it.

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Forecast Notes talks only to the National Weather Service. Your location is used to find your office and local alerts, and it stays on your device.

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