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IT'S OFFICIAL.

Sorry.

It's official.

The National Weather Service has ended more than a century of idiosyncratic typographical tradition — IN WHICH FORECASTS RAN ON FOR PAGES AND PAGES IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS:

A National Weather Service forecast discussion for Boston from Tuesday. National Weather Service

Sometime overnight Tuesday, without any fanfare, the agency began publishing normal sentences like the one you're reading now:

A National Weather Service forecast discussion for Boston from Wednesday. National Weather Service

The NWS said last month that it has been trying since the 1990s to stop writing like a furious Internet troll, but "it took the next 20 years or so for users of Weather Service products to phase out the last of the old equipment that would only recognize teletype."

Notice anything about today's Area Forecast Discussion? https://t.co/8XYnhhqO18 From here on - it won't be ALL CAPS ANYMORE #wawx #seattle — NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) May 11, 2016

It's not the first time the NWS' dry, staccato discussions have made news. During the federal budget shutdown of 2013, a forecaster at the agency's Anchorage, Alaska, office sent out a forecast with a hidden message in the first paragraph: PLEASE PAY US.