Consider to what extent descriptions are explanations!

Give an obvious example of an explanatory description and an example of a description that is not obviously intended to explain something.

Obvious example: I describe how a thermostatically controlled heater works.

Not obvious example: I'm describing a phenomenon such as the fact that the temperature in my apartment is always the same.

I will come back to this difference later and show to what extent I interpret descriptions of phenomena as explanations for my perceptions.