Changelog

This week's updates include enhancements to weather imagery positioning, new land cover data, and improvements to alert systems. Several API features now support additional data and operational efficiencies, while the Android app has received new display options.

Highlights

• Weather raster images are now positioned under the Great Lakes shoreline.
• A new land cover base map from ESA WorldCover replaces the previous county patchy map.
• The live tornado alert system now serves alerts based on forecast data, not model predictions.
• The static map service now supports arm64 architecture using Graviton.
• The Android app now includes GOES true-color raster PMTiles.

App

• Weather raster images are now positioned under the Great Lakes shoreline.
• The Android app now includes GOES true-color raster PMTiles.
• Profile batch updates include landcover, county IDs, and other land data.
• A new land cover base map from ESA WorldCover replaces the previous county patchy map.
• Layer byte budgets and regression checks are now enforced before publishing with Planetiler.
• The publish process now prevents overwriting the same basemap version.
• API and agent gauges are now visible on the Money, Usage, and Overview dashboards.
• The Android dataset switcher now includes a rotate lock feature.

API

• The system now submits feedback emails from the consumer Clerk.
• The static map service now supports arm64 architecture using Graviton.
• New developer notifications are now sent for first-key inbox messages.
• Model Bench now considers per-role batteries and composition arms for decision-making.
• The Developers tab now shows a staff directory with lifecycle and usage details.
• The live tornado alert system now serves alerts based on forecast data, not model predictions.
• S3 request attribution and ledger coalescing reduce costs.
• Model Bench now tests capability batteries in live scenarios with cost tracking.
• Gauges are now registered and integrated into the operational read model.
• Weather tapes are tagged with customer personas and query selectors in the scenario library.

MCP

• The Developers tab now shows a staff directory with lifecycle and usage details.

This week, Smarter Weather focused on enhancing onboarding experiences and testing processes. Updates include new onboarding features for Android and chat-first workflows, as well as improvements to testing and evaluation methods.

Highlights

• The Android onboarding process now includes chat-first onboarding with feature parity for the interview widget.
• The host-seed for consumer onboarding has been opened.
• OpsBench Phase 5a introduces a claim extractor and replay-lane verification.
• Forecast-verify now partitions leftover CONUS invokes before reaching the archive cap.
• The prompt-cache hit rate has been restored in the agent harness with a 1-hour TTL and rolling breakpoints.

App

• Deploy conformance testing for Context Bench phase 2.
• Propose evaluation methods for chat-first onboarding.
• The Android onboarding process now includes chat-first onboarding with feature parity for the interview widget.
• OpsBench Phase 5a introduces a claim extractor and replay-lane verification.
• The chat-first onboarding now includes location pick and OS permission cards.

API

• Open the host-seed for consumer onboarding.
• Combine marketing inbox notifications into a single campaign email.
• Create a plan for the named activity in consumer onboarding.
• Add a teammate interview prompt for consumer onboarding.
• Propose evaluation methods for chat-first onboarding.
• Schedule insight briefs and draft white papers for founder review.
• Encode editor decisions as division evaluations.
• The flagship harness now uses Anthropic tool search and defer_loading.
• The intake process now mentions the ops agent on GitHub for creating a run and inbox item.
• OpsBench Phase 4b adds a persona library, draft factory, and integrity audit.
• The prompt-cache hit rate has been restored in the agent harness with a 1-hour TTL and rolling breakpoints.
• Forecast-verify now partitions leftover CONUS invokes before reaching the archive cap.

MCP

• Schedule insight briefs and draft white papers for founder review.

This week, Smarter Weather introduced new features and data enhancements across its platform, focusing on forecast accuracy, user notifications, and system integrations. Several updates improve the presentation and accessibility of weather data, as well as automation capabilities for partners.

Highlights

• GFS and HRRR models now score 1-hour precipitation forecasts and compare with other data sources.
• iOS alerts now support opt-in Live Activities, and staff-only chat features are available on iOS, web, and Android.
• National Radar data is now available into HRRR 15 minutes after the current time.
• Weather updates include on-and-off rain forecasts for upcoming days.
• Scheduled paydown and month-end contribution recommendations are now available.

App

• iOS alerts now support opt-in Live Activities.
• See GitHub auto-triage information on the Mission Control dashboard.
• Staff-only chat features are now available on iOS, web, and Android.
• The georeference for National Radar MRMS to HRRR has been fixed.
• The onboarding process now supports chat and weather entry.
• National Radar data is now available into HRRR 15 minutes after the current time.
• RRFS CONUS 15-minute forecast data has been added to the forecast picker.
• Wrap-cell token usage is now included in experiment cost estimates.
• Android Settings now match iOS in Phase 2f.
• GIS footprint snapping is now limited to tile-sized memory to prevent OOM errors.
• The prompt-optimizer executor now runs on --matrix in OpsBench Phase 3d.
• The prompt-file cartesian executor now runs on --matrix in OpsBench Phase 3c.
• Show a live map preview on the Android home screen.
• Ensure address extract data is consistent across data chunks.
• Add new appearance themes, weather widgets, and icons on Android.
• Limit memory use during address extract processing to prevent errors.
• Add shared tray, location search, and forecast details on Android.
• Display clouds, precipitation, fog, and lightning on the weather canvas.
• The Android weather canvas now includes sun, flare, and stars.
• The Android weather canvas now features GLES host and sky.
• The Ops overview now shows what you need rather than just metrics.
• The Android weather canvas now has a live sky backdrop.
• GIS PAD-US now provides per-state park GeoPackages from our S3 storage.
• Web sign-in now treats Clerk Device Trust as a silent no-op.
• GIS PAD-US now uses ScienceBase state GDB zips instead of ArcGIS queries.
• The Android app now packages the iOS AppIcon as the Play launcher icon.
• The GIS bronze cache now campaigns pins OSM and survives PADUS timeouts.
• Per-snapshot address staging prevents concurrent GIS shards from clobbering ATTACH.
• OpsBench now posts notification events after iOS tap/dismiss actions.
• The Android CD now supports internal testing similar to TestFlight.
• See live NWS alert polygons on the map.
• See packed GLES and play features on the Android map.
• View idle Chrome map on Android with the MapNowPanel.
• Use MapLibre shell and national MRMS as default on Android.
• The Money pane now shows subscription budget versus actual spending.
• Ledger CLIs now parse the swadmin JSON token.
• Helpers are available for connecting and deploying to Android devices.
• The load_postgis GIS pin has been updated to version 0.0.0.32.
• Android Phase 2c+ now supports drag-reorder on the home screen.
• Out-of-range address coordinates are now dropped before staging in LoadPostGIS.
• Android Phase 2c now includes home editing and family packs.
• Android Phase 2 now supports home parity.
• Session statement_timeout is disabled during LoadPostGIS to allow bulk stages to complete.
• Region-scoped rollback for multi-shard GIS refreshes is now supported.
• Alert categories now show accurate reasons for being disabled.
• Staging data now prefers wins over NULL-region fixture copies.
• The first frame of the National Radar is pre-fetched on weather page mount.
• Radar overlay ingest starvation on iOS can cause Play to freeze.
• ogr2ogr DSN is restored and address staging is reused in LoadPostGIS.
• Replay now includes a watch-level prepare action class.
• Full weather data is pre-fetched on recent-chip and search hops.
• Legal information is now consistent across CRA and iOS platforms.
• Last-known forecast is persisted for instant weather paint on revisit.
• Fix crash in radar animation on iOS after guidance z-order update.
• Limit live warning alerts to current Watch or Warning status.

API

• GFS scores 1-hour quantitative precipitation forecasts and compares them with other data sources.
• Marketing inbox notifications are now combined into a single campaign email.
• iOS alerts now support opt-in Live Activities.
• A new chat feature has been deployed for live-tagged scenarios.
• Weather updates include on-and-off rain forecasts for the upcoming days.
• HRRR model scores 1-hour quantitative precipitation forecasts and compares with other data.
• Nowcast precipitation notifications are now more selective, skipping minor showers.
• Inbox markdown messages are now rendered as HTML emails and on the agents page.
• See relative humidity at 2 meters in the HRRR model.
• See one-hour accumulated precipitation data in the RRFS model.
• See one-hour accumulated precipitation data in the HRRR model.
• See one-hour accumulated precipitation data in the GFS model.
• The memory consolidator pattern now uses the company context store.
• Service identity now allows agent-harness automations to call tools.
• RRFS CONUS 15-minute forecast data has been added to the forecast picker.
• Ops now supports MCP and CLI dispatch automation for human and agent workflows.
• The agent-harness executor for automations has been implemented.
• Scheduled paydown and month-end contribution recommendations are now available.
• Added new fields to the PaymentAccount statement cycle.
• Pin wxblend version so it can fall back to RRFS for certain regions.
• Use a static Stripe deposit address for payments.
• Serve RRFS data in a specific regional blend and verify snapshots.
• Use a dedicated Stripe key for the MRR connector.
• Onboard RRFS CONUS 2dfld data into the weather pipeline.
• The Ops page now shows a notification when a connector goes red.
• OpsBench Phase 2b introduces flagship and briefing replay arms.
• The clock and dimension-port contract are now promoted to libs/bench-core; weather and context are composed.
• The Stripe connector now provides error details and retries on 403/429 errors.
• WSSI status false outage is now marked as a processing delay during catalog lag.
• Company context write parity is now supported in the system.
• Stamp promptVersion and modelId on evaluation scores.
• Distinguish draft-consent cards from tool-consent cards for better user experience.
• HRRR Alaska scoring is now enabled in forecast verification.
• Android has been added to the first-party surfaces with internal access.
• The monthly close pack and Money pane ledger are now available.
• Ledger receipts and Gmail harvest are now integrated.
• Forecast verification now achieves truth parity with GFS and HRRR models using NBM.
• Weather MCP is now advertised at mcp.smarterweather.com without the /mcp path.
• The finance slice includes ledger source of record, Sheets import, and read/export features.
• GFS scoring can now be enabled without inheriting scenario precipitation.
• Leftover RNAs in GFS are now a live bundle with an empty pin gate.
• OAuth PKCE and refresh token support are added for Swadmin ops MCP.
• Compare provider burn and computed cost in OpenAI and Anthropic connectors.

MCP

• Ops now supports MCP and CLI dispatch automation for human and agent workflows.
• Scheduled paydown and month-end contribution recommendations are now available.
• Added new fields to the PaymentAccount statement cycle.
• Use a static Stripe deposit address for payments.
• Serve RRFS data in a specific regional blend and verify snapshots.
• The Ops page now shows a notification when a connector goes red.
• Sw-mcp now passes through extra fields on MCP outputSchema objects.
• The MCP now preloads company context during initialization.
• Company context write parity is now supported in the system.
• The OAuth resource URL for Weather MCP no longer has a trailing slash.
• The Weather MCP /mcp alias has been removed and is now served only at the hostname apex.
• The monthly close pack and Money pane ledger are now available.
• Ledger receipts and Gmail harvest are now integrated.
• Weather MCP is now advertised at mcp.smarterweather.com without the /mcp path.
• The finance slice includes ledger source of record, Sheets import, and read/export features.
• Weather MCP is now accessible at mcp.smarterweather.com apex.
• OAuth PKCE and refresh token support are added for Swadmin ops MCP.

Portal

• Web sign-in now treats Clerk Device Trust as a silent no-op.
• Weather MCP is now advertised at mcp.smarterweather.com without the /mcp path.
• Developer-site onboarding issues that blocked initial MCP installation have been fixed.
• Legal consistency has been checked for Public Platform GA.

This week, Smarter Weather released updates across various systems, including enhancements to replay archives, satellite imagery, and alert management. Several improvements focus on data accuracy, system stability, and user interface consistency.

Highlights

• Replay archives now include Iowa City tornado alerts tape from 2023-03-31.
• Guidance polygons now cover radar on iOS and web.
• Forecast tray text can now scroll when clipped.
• The GFS leftover now has a 6-hour minimum age to prevent reprocessing of unbundled cycles.
• Stripe Checkout product copy is shortened and prompts live setup on promote.

App

• Replay archives scored tape runs under replay/traces/.
• Replay no longer counts hedged Watch/Warning phrases as mentions.
• Replay quiet-window restraint score is now set on the 2023-08-15 Iowa City alerts.
• Guidance polygons now cover radar on iOS and web.
• GIS compose now requires camx addresses in national PMTiles; GIS coverage is separate from weather search.
• Replay now binds live --arm llm to the tape world.
• GIS SFN: ChooseTileGenerator now handles missing $.tiles.generator in config.
• Forecast tray text can now scroll when clipped.
• Replay archives the 2023-08-15 Iowa City quiet alerts tape.
• GOES-West full disk IR/WV images now smear across the antimeridian.
• See full-disk IR/WV satellite imagery and view picker on the map.
• Enabled PMD desks are now included in guidance.
• The /ship endpoint now pushes the latest record telemetry events.
• Replay clamp now runs to window end.
• The GIS aggregation cache now works for local and AWS environments and covers Overture and OpenAddresses.
• WFO HLS has been added to include guidance.
• Swadmin now automatically rebuilds the distribution to prevent serving stale hosts.
• The Replay TimeProvider now uses get_time at virtual T.
• Replay time evaluation is scheduled offline on the June 1 combined tape.
• GLM ledger and client caps have been reduced from 450 to 300.
• Precipitation discussions have been added to flood discussions.
• The full-day alert hours for Iowa City on 2023-03-31 have been scored.
• The NBM identity for Iowa City on 2023-03-31 has been scored.
• Address dataflow has been optimized to handle large datasets more efficiently.
• The product pane flags list now includes a flip with reason.
• The GIS pipeline now handles specific regional data and addresses a spike in resource usage.
• Weather zones are now dumped to S3 and loaded during extraction for the CONUS UGC atlas.
• The North America campaign runbook and mountain shard dry run are now available.
• A zone atlas for CAPs is now extracted from a specific pipeline.
• Address schema version 2 now uses state-partitioned tables with shard-scoped partition-swap refresh.
• GIS pipeline now produces a single GeoParquet 1.1 address artifact and loads PostGIS data via DuckDB.
• The Iowa City tornado alerts tape from 2023-03-31 has been scored.
• The Iowa City tornado alerts replay tape from 2023-03-31 has been added.
• Parallel processing of per-source address extracts has been enabled in data transformation.
• The Iowa City live CAP event on June 1, 2021, is recorded as fog and SWS, not a tornado.
• CAP alerts that are UGC-only are retained when the footprint lists those codes during replay.
• The gis-common image has been updated with DuckDB and shared backoff/geoparquet tooling.
• Weather alert evaluateOne now fires on in-effect NWS alerts during replay.
• Replay now stubs wrap calls for query_alerts and in-effect NWS alerts.
• The GLM 300-entry ledger now covers approximately 3.3 hours of CONUS IR, not 5 hours.
• Basemap v2 includes full address, POI, and park layer buildout with DuckDB-accelerated GIS pipeline.
• Replay now combines Iowa City NBM, SPC, and alerts tape.
• Fire replay.alert_set_change when the in-effect NWS alert set changes.
• Benign probe failures are filtered from telemetry data.
• Weather overlays now animate with the timeline on web and iOS.
• A shared NWS alert kernel is available in the libraries.
• CAP alert data can be replayed from tape.
• CAP extract data can be replayed.
• The automation registry schema now supports CI.
• Weather overlays can be animated with the map playhead.
• The GLM lightning ledger now covers 5 hours (300 frames).
• The severe-alert visualization ledger now covers 5 hours (300 frames).
• The IEM CAP acquire process can now be replayed.
• The two-fire and LABEL-change identity events can now be replayed.
• The Mission Control Platform now includes a read-only pane for connectors and data freshness.
• The outlook LABEL-change fire event can now be replayed.
• The Mission Control Events pane now displays data from GET /v1/admin/ops/events.
• The Overview pane now shows a loading indicator alongside fetch errors.
• The SPC second outlook issuance fixture can now be replayed.
• The Mission Control Overview pane now displays data from GET /v1/admin/ops/overview.
• The SPC wrap identity scorer can now be replayed.
• The outlook-aware stub now queries outlook and writes warnings for SLGT+.
• The outlook surface can now be queried as-of from the SPC feature tape.
• Alert versions now copy severity and description columns onto the alert version records.
• iOS map now does not keep live alerts on screen during the first seconds of playback.
• Replay 03 report now supports eval_suite and sales_case_study data from JSONL files.
• Replay 03 wrap-score now performs an identity check for action_class extras.
• Replay 03 wrap now runs in-process runTurn as a second JSONL writer.
• Replay 03-M1 now supports JSONL reader, identity scorer, and experiment types.
• Replay orchestrator now supports synthetic TriggerPort and JSONL ActionSink.
• Replay orchestrator now includes tape reader, virtual clock, and as-of WeatherDataPort.
• A replay orchestrator plan against Iowa City tape has been documented.
• An extract stage has been added for the replay-prep pipeline.
• Live alerts are no longer shown on the screen during the first seconds of Play.
• The web map chrome UX has been ported to iOS.
• The now panel now shows pause and scrub controls during mobile playback.
• Tropical inspector now displays TCD, TCP, TWO discussions, and CAP on watch/warning cards.
• The alert versions table in the database now uses an append-only design.
• The platform now supports fullscreen datasets and sharing of still images or GIFs.

API

• Stripe Checkout product copy is shortened and prompts live setup on promote.
• Checkout has switched to Stripe Hosted Checkout with a two-column layout.
• GFS leftover now has a 6-hour minimum age to prevent unbundled cycles from reprocessing.
• Sw-agent now caps remember-and-watch asks off weather fetches.
• Sw-agent now includes a Layer-3 explore pack for remember-field.
• GOES-West full disk IR/WV images now smear across the antimeridian.
• See full-disk IR/WV satellite imagery and view picker on the map.
• Stripe embedded checkout is available on a first-party branded page.
• Inbox notifications for GitHub issues are sent only when a grant key is present.
• Enabled PMD desks are now included in guidance.
• WFO HLS has been added to include guidance.
• The developer free self-serve and agent onboarding path have been made more honest.
• AppConfig descriptions are now sanitized to prevent Unicode-related errors.
• GLM ledger and client caps have been reduced from 450 to 300.
• Precipitation discussions have been added to flood discussions.
• The bundle_hourly data is now interleaved to allow leftover snapshots to be pinned.
• Leftover sweep attempts are now reserved during NBM catch-up.
• The display name for current location now treats Name and ST as the same.
• Visibility and dispatch for iOS releases, along with swadmin releases, have been updated.
• The newest-first approach for leftover sweep attempts allows QMD to run during OM.
• Only NYC tokens are accepted on a bare New York City ask.
• A two-pass sweep ensures NBM is not starved by GFS/QMD RNA.
• The MCP flag is now set with a destructive grant.
• Current location display names are now rejected on weather tools.
• GFS snapshots are now stored in the forecast-of-record store.
• Statewide NY is rejected on a bare New York City ask.
• The SNAPSHOT_CHUNK_POINTS limit has been increased from 20 to 50.
• Location-default match settings are now evaluated with --context.
• The scoring schedule is now more flexible to prevent Lambda invocation limits from affecting the first run.
• The suggested chips data structure has been normalized.
• Telemetry data is now being ingested from a specific file.
• Automations for release analysis and marketing drafts are now in place.
• One static map POST request now serves both map snapshot and preview.
• The alert dispatcher now uses a specific library to classify events.
• Issue cycle time tracking is now available.
• The all-clear message for New York now correctly refers to New York City.
• The event dispatcher now manages registry subscriptions and ledger updates.
• Choreography events, findings publishing, and change shipping are now automated.
• The Mission Control Chat pane is now integrated with the operational agent.
• Live weather alert event classes are now available through registry synchronization and dispatcher.
• METAR data is now derived from hourly visualization frames instead of SQL.
• METAR observations can abort the scoring run when there are 500 issues.
• Get alerts now correctly treats bare New York as New York State.
• Extreme warnings are now hidden when get_alerts returns no data.
• Weather alert class filters and CAP onset ticks are now included in replay.
• Zero truth-side drops are re-checked against a fully bundled UTC day in forecast verification.
• A dedicated GitHub App manages the github connector with installation tokens and fallback options.
• Weather alert event groups now use the notification catalog during replay.
• Inbox notifications are now sent via SES and GitHub.
• The GitHub connector now checks the earliest commit in CI rate checks.
• The GLM min_interval_seconds setting is honored across writer workers.
• CRPS over NBM QMD quantiles is now available for forecast verification.
• The permission engine now manages inbox approvals and grants.
• The GitHub connector now reports ship frequency, cycle time, automation health, and revert gauges.
• The GLM 300-entry ledger now covers approximately 3.3 hours of CONUS IR, not 5 hours.
• Manual dispatch and resume handling are now supported.
• The system now uses the NWS alerts library.
• Tools are available for reading data in the system.
• Responses now exclude assets over the maximum per timestep, but still return a success status.
• A new view compares forecast data with actual results to identify discrepancies.
• Snapshots of event cadence are now available for map animations.
• The GLM lightning ledger now covers 5 hours (300 frames).
• The severe-alert visualization ledger now covers 5 hours (300 frames).
• A writer stamp contract is now needed to persist wind vector skill for forecast verification.
• The get_alerts function now retrieves in-effect snapshots for agents.
• The GET /v1/alerts endpoint now returns in-effect snapshots.
• GFS F000 MSLP data now provides Jenkinson-Collison circulation types for the JC regime family.
• The admin.smarterweather.com scaffold now includes certification, CloudFront, and an empty shell.
• The alert writer now copies severity and description onto nws_alert_versions rows.
• The Wx-agent now maps lead_hours through each model's own buckets.
• Consume spatialweather-test-db version 0.0.0.61.
• Forecast verification now includes wind vector error from RTMA u/v data.
• A new company context store has been added for operational use.
• Replay preparation now includes a timeline of SPC day-1 categorical features.
• A new GitHub connector has been added for operational use.
• The writer role now requires dynamodb:GetItem permission for the connector health check.
• Forecast verification now includes METAR-collocated truth, derived relative humidity, and the 24-36 hour probability of precipitation bucket.
• An autonomy policy file and schema have been added.
• Connector runner now handles double-fires and IAM update failures.
• Forecast verification now surfaces persistence skill on GET /v1/forecast/skill and get_forecast_skill endpoints.
• A status-freshness connector has been added for operational monitoring.
• A production DynamoDB usage connector and publish-only runner have been added.
• Forecast verification now includes a persistence baseline via analysis_at_issue in snapshots.
• Drive snapshot capture in forecast record now uses verification.yaml for multi-model long-horizon scoring.
• A new bus subscriber populates the read model in the ops system.
• HRRR scoring is now enabled in forecast verification.
• A forecast source reader for short-horizon models has been implemented.
• A new connector framework and AWS CloudWatch connector are available in ops.
• The M2 replay now acquires NBM CONUS data into the raw data folder.
• The wxreader pin for the sw-api has been updated to version 0.1.21.
• PostGIS now supports place rank and place_id for geocoding.
• The static-generator boto3 is pinned to ensure proper work with IfNoneMatch/IfMatch headers.
• S3 permissions have been granted to the static-alerts-generator for creating the alert ledger.
• The spatialweather-test-db has been updated to version 0.0.0.58.
• Tropical inspector now displays TCD, TCP, TWO discussions, and CAP on watch/warning cards.
• Alert notifications now include action-aware titles for different alert states.
• Alert history now records alert versions and VTEC actions.

MCP

• A cursor stdio bridge is available for /ship to call record_ship_run.
• Precipitation discussions have been added to flood discussions.
• The MCP flag is now set with a destructive grant.
• Telemetry data is now being ingested from a specific file.
• Automations for release analysis and marketing drafts are now in place.
• One static map POST request now serves both map snapshot and preview.
• The event dispatcher now manages registry subscriptions and ledger updates.
• Choreography events, findings publishing, and change shipping are now automated.
• The Mission Control Chat pane is now integrated with the operational agent.
• The permission engine now manages inbox approvals and grants.
• Staff JWTs are verified for the clerk.smarterweather.com service.
• Tools are available for reading data in the system.
• A new view compares forecast data with actual results to identify discrepancies.
• A writer stamp contract is now needed to persist wind vector skill for forecast verification.
• The get_alerts function now retrieves in-effect snapshots for agents.
• GFS F000 MSLP data now provides Jenkinson-Collison circulation types for the JC regime family.
• Forecast verification now includes wind vector error from RTMA u/v data.
• Forecast verification now surfaces persistence skill on GET /v1/forecast/skill and get_forecast_skill endpoints.
• PostGIS now supports place rank and place_id for geocoding.

Portal

• Checkout has switched to Stripe Hosted Checkout with a two-column layout.
• Surface OAuth errors on custom sign-in.
• Stripe embedded checkout is available on a first-party branded page.
• A well-known onboarding Agent Plugin skill and public repository sync pair have been added.
• The developer free self-serve and agent onboarding path have been made more honest.
• The admin interface has been fixed and styled.
• Forecast verification now includes wind vector error from RTMA u/v data.
• An Agent Plugin for the weather MCP has been released.

This week, Smarter Weather introduced new data sources and enhanced visualization features, including tropical cyclone data and mesoscale guidance. Several updates focused on improving map interactions, alert displays, and data accessibility across platforms.

Highlights

• Tropical cyclone data is now available through the GET /v1/tropical endpoint.
• Guidance GeoJSON now includes MCD bulletin bodies for mesoscale guidance.
• The map inspector on desktop now shows expanded view, contrast options, and formatted product text.
• Lightning data is now shown on iOS.
• The alerts layout on the web has been improved.

App

• Tropical cyclone data is now available through the GET /v1/tropical endpoint.
• Precipitation guidance surfaces can be viewed on the map.
• NWS text products are now accessible on the map control panel, including guidance.
• The map inspector on desktop now shows expanded view, contrast options, and formatted product text.
• The desktop map inspector includes a place card with a resizable tray.
• URLs for shareable alerts open the live map inspector.
• The map inspector tray now shows inline alert, outlook, and MCD details.
• The web map inspector tray includes a companion panel, scrolling, and map padding options.
• The Basemap v2 tile schema includes OMT-aligned layers, label ranking, and a publish gate.
• Fullscreen overlays are no longer fetched in the web map preview.
• Guidance GeoJSON now includes MCD bulletin bodies for mesoscale guidance.
• Guidance user experience now features MCD in narration and threat-first widgets for AFD, HWO, and MCD.
• Guidance bodies and MCD map display have been polished, including a blue overlay and hiding the Show on map option.
• Weather discussions now include a mesoscale map overlay on web and iOS.
• Near-term probability of precipitation is now pulled down when the nowcast peak is not available.
• Near-term probability of precipitation from nowcast has been floored, and storm narration has been fixed for contradictions.
• Lightning data is now shown on iOS.
• High energy usage on idle web has been reduced.
• The alerts layout on the web has been improved.
• The energy usage of the WebGL sky background on the web has been reduced during idle.
• Silver places v2 now includes an OMT-style rank, CA/MX places, and a tiles-only places artifact.
• Map pan and zoom performance has been improved, and GPU energy usage regression has been addressed.
• The world-bounds fix for the Gis pipeline improves map accuracy.
• The iOS app now includes web mobile UX features such as alerts, forecast tray, and basemap.
• Alert polygon styling on the web has been improved.
• Mobile tray user experience on the web has been enhanced.

API

• Tropical cyclone data is now available through the GET /v1/tropical endpoint.
• Precipitation guidance surfaces can be viewed on the map.
• NWS text products are now accessible on the map control panel, including guidance.
• NWS discussion text products are ingested via NWWS for various product types.
• The forecast verification now supports the SCN1 scenario family.
• The wxblend API is pinned to version 0.1.28 for MCD narration cues.
• NWS CAP test and exercise alerts are no longer relayed to users.
• Guidance GeoJSON now includes MCD bulletin bodies for mesoscale guidance.
• Guidance user experience now features MCD in narration and threat-first widgets for AFD, HWO, and MCD.
• Guidance bodies and MCD map display have been polished, including a blue overlay and hiding the Show on map option.
• The Wx-reader /v1/guidance/mesoscale and text-products endpoints omit the body content.
• Weather discussions now include a mesoscale map overlay on web and iOS.
• The API now provides mesoscale discussion data as a GeoJSON FeatureCollection.
• The wxblend API has been updated to version 0.1.27, including a dry nowcast probability of precipitation pull-down.
• The HRRR subhourly visualization has been reprojected to EPSG:4326 with a close-packed sync guard.
• A hotfix now displays hourly HRRR hybrid radar data until subhourly data is available in geographic coordinates.
• Satellite lane health checks have been fixed, pipeline PMTiles emission improved, and truecolor download loss reduced.
• Cache-Control headers have been added to the SW API responses to enable edge caching.
• GRIB2 IDX parsing has been extracted into a separate library.
• Radar nowcast asset lookup has been optimized to prevent timeouts after restarts.
• The archive resolver now expands a time window into a fetch plan with gaps.
• Verified archive floors are now recorded for all ingested sources.
• The Wx-reader now performs windowed climatology reads and prewarms static bundle metadata.
• NWS alerts are now declared as a replayable source.
• Forecast-conditioned weather scenarios are now included in the regime family skill key.
• Archive metadata schema and forward issuance ledger now support non-archivable outlooks.
• Run manifest coverage is now per-path, affecting how often certain caches are checked.
• Forecast-conditioned weather scenarios are included in the regime family skill key.
• Bundle objects are now named after their owner.
• The NBM daily departure API now handles approximately three forecast days.

MCP

• NWS text products are now accessible on the map control panel, including guidance.
• The forecast verification now supports the SCN1 scenario family.
• Guidance user experience now features MCD in narration and threat-first widgets for AFD, HWO, and MCD.
• A hotfix now displays hourly HRRR hybrid radar data until subhourly data is available in geographic coordinates.

This week, Smarter Weather introduced new features to enhance the forecast experience on web and iOS, including climate compare tools, detailed normals, and forecast maps. Several updates also improved the consistency and clarity of weather data presentation across platforms.

Highlights

• The web forecast now includes climate compare and map features.
• Daily climate normals and departure are shown in forecast details on web and iOS.
• Forecast period maps are now included in the forecast detail view on iOS.
• Forecast period still images now display the full day.
• The forecast map is now shown beside the forecast and within reach of a forecast day.

App

• The web forecast experience now includes climate compare and map features.
• Daily climate normals and departure are now shown in forecast details on web and iOS.
• A forecast-period map is now included in the forecast detail view on iOS.
• Forecast period still images now display the full day, not limited to 24 hours.
• Connectors are now resolved from the bundled vendor bundle.
• Desktop forecast detail now features a single day/night panel with the map on the right.
• Connectors are now published in the bundled artifact.
• Forecast period previews now share one off-screen MapLibre instance instead of creating a new WebGL context for each panel.
• The /map route now collapses the map instead of navigating back, preventing users from getting stranded.
• When sidecar fetch fails, composite rasters now render into a guessed CONUS box silently.
• Management list cards now share a two-tap confirmation process.
• Settings and connect card renderers now include a time-limited undo option.
• A period with no frame continues to display the other period's map.
• App intents are now run and their outcomes are reported to the agent.
• The forecast preview now draws over the labels the main map draws underneath.
• iOS now resolves a forecast frame by variable, not just by date.
• Web now resolves a forecast frame by variable, not just by date.
• iOS now renders four display-only chat cards for nowcast, usage, onboarding progress, and plan review.
• A preview map can now draw any product, not just national radar.
• iOS now renders question cards so the agent can ask structured questions.
• iOS now advertises three chat components it cannot render.
• The forecast map is now shown beside the forecast.
• The forecast map is now within reach of a forecast day.
• A product's colour scale is now described in human terms.
• Forecast cards now follow the new headings and window labels as specified.
• A forecast period map preview is now available.
• The frame for a forecast period is now loaded and colorized.
• A single composite frame can now be rendered to a still image in the browser.
• A forecast period is now resolved to a map frame and variable on both clients.
• Temperature departure maps now display typical departures with clearer colors.
• Forecast composite layers open on the farthest lead instead of the nearest.
• Forecast map layout now follows the forecast frame layout as shown in the visualization ledger.
• Event envelope and metric registry loader are now available in the core library.
• Trigger thresholds now include more variables stored in app units.
• Trigger thresholds convert app units to product-native units at registration.
• The metadata now credits a distant station for grid-sourced normals when appropriate.
• The climatology catalog rows are deleted after a set time.
• The package graph is built once using an Xcode workspace.
• Thinking indicator in web chat now remains active during turns.
• Swift package tests are now run during iOS CI.
• Request timeline is now fully instrumented in the agent.
• SPC fire outlooks are now available as a separate picker option.
• SPC dry-thunderstorm fire outlooks are now available as a separate picker group.
• Surface SPC dry-thunderstorm fire outlooks now include drill-down and detail band features.
• A new palette for SPC dry-thunderstorm fire outlooks has been added to assets.

API

• Notifications for the same place are now de-duplicated.
• The maximum number of UI components has been increased to accommodate chat handshakes.
• The static map service now picks a frame based on the actual rendered variable.
• The system now records which variable each forecast lead carries.
• Chat now includes a progress preamble when it is silent for the whole turn.
• Chat widgets now show place names instead of raw coordinates.
• Publish daily high and low temperature maps with day/night variables.
• Forecast map layout now follows the forecast frame layout as shown in the visualization ledger.
• Shared code now generates EventBridge subscriptions.
• Add contingency counters such as POD, FAR, CSI, and ETS to forecast verification.
• Weather agent now decodes contingency rows before scoring.
• Forecast skill now shows the regime label and chain.
• Forecast skill read path now points to a non-empty table.
• Trigger thresholds convert app units to product-native units at registration.
• Forecast verification now scores the entire population.
• Add departure-from-normal map layer for CONUS.
• Enable scoring writes in production for forecast verification.
• Products may show as OUTAGE when sibling updates occur without notifications.
• A new product shows temperature departure from normal for the continental US.
• The reproject-to-grid process now supports 'average' resampling method.
• The visualization emitter now processes each resolution once.
• A new static climatology resolver maps day-of-year lead times.
• The visualization ledger may lose entries under concurrent access.
• Four skills now have automatic triggers enabled by default.
• Skills now attach automatically with no extra network requests.
• Alarms using SEARCH() are replaced with deployable versions.
• Redundant database writes are reduced on the output path.
• The decode path now shares resources more efficiently.
• The maximum duration for the NBM CONUS bundle is 38 minutes.
• The weather processing pipeline reports about 1,230 errors per day and has recurring latency spikes.
• The normal_precip data is available on the climate normals endpoint.
• A tool call that reaches the iteration limit may end without a response.
• Daily precipitation normals are published but not included in the climate normals endpoint.
• Some alarms watching metric series have been fixed.
• The documentation for the overnight high/low temperature row has been corrected.
• Null is now served for the absent high temperature in the overnight row.
• Daily data rows do not include active period information between midnight and 6 AM when derived from hourly data.
• The parameter ANALYSIS_BUNDLE_READS remains false after deployment due to a missing parameter in the CD process.
• The analysis bundle store now supports 4D interleaved analysis bundles for verification.
• The batch-medium pinned limit is set at maximum to manage read scaling costs.
• The wxclimo API now correctly flags gridded normals as exact.
• The fast-tier routing share has been increased through measured de-escalation.
• The chat latency has been reduced by skipping the final language model round trip when the message only involves display-only tool calls.
• Climate normals overlay now uses the correct data keys.
• Bundle asset attributes now include reserve_stored_zero for data detection.
• Previously fetched batch results may expire earlier due to budget limits.
• Hourly-store reads are now fully sequential under a fixed product budget.
• Normals method is now visible in the surface API.
• Ceiling limits in the batch-medium writer are now adjustable, and alarm metrics are checked.
• Dry-run reports now show units correctly and highlight errors.
• Request timeline is now fully instrumented in the agent.
• Configuration-only optimizations include filter, ETag, lifecycle, log level, and cron updates.
• Multi-frame reads are now fully sequential within a fixed budget.
• Empty frames now retain previous weather features.
• Decoding and message loop in the writer are now more efficient.
• Chat response speed is improved by adjusting effort and capacity.
• A new palette for SPC dry-thunderstorm fire outlooks has been added to assets.
• Climate normals are now accessible on the on-demand lane.
• An on-demand scale-from-zero writer lane has been added.

MCP

• Chat widgets now show place names instead of raw coordinates.
• Add contingency counters such as POD, FAR, CSI, and ETS to forecast verification.
• Forecast skill now shows the regime label and chain.

Portal

• Add contingency counters such as POD, FAR, CSI, and ETS to forecast verification.

This week, Smarter Weather introduced new features for fire outlooks, including dedicated display bands and additional hazard data. The system now supports more detailed forecast verification and climate normals, with updates to the weather API and data ingestion processes. Several improvements enhance the reliability and clarity of weather and fire data presentation for users and partners.

Highlights

• Fire outlooks now have their own display band in wxblend and are ranked with the convective risk table.
• Rain hazard data is now included in the weather outlook API with narrative and polygons.
• Forecast verification has been extended to include a new unbiased regional coverage table and better handling of missing data.
• The weather API now supports including climate normals and station data, with a new endpoint for climate normals.
• The weather agent now mirrors climate normals data from the API and supports forecast skill qualification.

App

• Clients cannot distinguish between 'no areas' and 'no data' in fire outlook trust reports.
• Parse and rank SPC dry-thunderstorm fire outlooks in wxblend.
• Fix the climatology lake bucket target during Phase 3 activation.
• Validate data in the model registry, with no consumers yet.
• The verification grid is generated in the weather reference pipeline.
• A new table provides unbiased regional verification coverage.
• A Climate Almanac section has been added to the CRA weather page.
• Non-drawable fire outlook GeoJSON is filtered on iOS to prevent crashes.
• The WPC ERO outlook features now include hazard=rain.
• The climate almanac card on iOS can now be added from the UI.
• The climate almanac card on iOS now shows normals and departure from normal.
• Fire-weather outlooks are now ranked with the convective risk table, resolving nested areas.
• A new climate domain layer for day-of-year normals has been added.
• A new client method for GET /v1/climate-normals has been added to wxreader.
• The climate normals data now includes a table and a loader for NCEI 1991-2020 station daily normals.
• The Outlook callout now allows viewing details for SPC convective days 1-3.
• SPC significant-severe data is now included alongside hazard probability, and national text-product queries are supported.
• The wx-chat and wx-mcp services are retired.
• Product strategy documentation is now stored in the repository.
• Pins for wxag, wxindex, and wxblend are updated to include recent fixes.
• The narration for low-percentage forecasts has been clarified.
• The agriculture widget load failure issue has been addressed.
• The upgrade widget now displays correctly at tier limit.
• The email consent prompt now behaves correctly, even if previously given.
• The Sw-agent harness now includes quality improvements like lean context injection and parallel reads.
• Make agent message approval a durable, revocable permission instead of a one-time prompt.

API

• Surface SPC dry-thunderstorm fire outlooks as their own band in wxblend.
• Clients cannot distinguish between 'no areas' and 'no data' in fire outlook trust reports.
• Read model configuration from the model registry for enrichment.
• Give SPC dry-thunderstorm fire outlooks their own outlook type in wx-reader.
• Add a truth dimension to the skill sort key and ledger claim in forecast verification.
• Ingest SPC dry-thunderstorm fire weather outlooks into the wx-pipeline.
• Source context windows from the model registry and fix the OpenAI token parameter in agent harness.
• Ensure wxclimo consumes wxreader v0.1.15 during Phase 3, Wave A.
• Update introductory pricing for Sonnet 5 to $3/$15 starting September 1.
• Forecast-record sweep fires earlier, before NBM bundle_hourly exists, losing synoptic cycles.
• Remove the forced sampling params enrichment config.
• Add gridded climate normals for CONUS in climatology store and OM day-of-year.
• Update provider SDKs to current versions and fix Retry-After read issues.
• Onboard URMA as a verification truth in wx-pipeline.
• Fix missing claude-sonnet-5 data in per-model tables and address context and cost issues.
• Publish the public accuracy scorecard in forecast verification.
• Enable forecast skill qualification in sw-mcp and sw-agent.
• Surface measured forecast skill is now available to the weather agent.
• Forecast verification now handles missing snapshots more reliably.
• A Brier score with reliability bins is available for probabilistic forecasts.
• Forecast verification now supports idempotency with conditional updates.
• The accumulation write path now includes climatology sums for skill rows.
• Forecast scorer now includes scaffolding, infrastructure, and a dry-run truth gate.
• The forecast record now tracks the verification grid as a third data source.
• Verification configuration now includes a schema and CI validation.
• A grid georeferencing bug affecting sampling accuracy has been fixed.
• Empty fire geometry frames are now dropped from the weather pipeline.
• Rain hazard data is now exposed in the weather outlook API with narrative.
• ERO day data is now included in the outlook point queries.
• Severe-weather guidance is now directed at national discussions.
• The fire-weather outlooks are accessible via a new API endpoint.
• A new tool for getting climate normals is now available and whitelisted for the agent.
• The weather agent now mirrors the climate normals data from the API.
• The weather API now supports including climate data in responses.
• The outlook API no longer includes LLM narrative summaries.
• The climate normals endpoint is now exposed via the API.
• The wxreader library version 0.1.14 is now pinned for climate normals.
• The endpoint GET /v1/climate-normals now provides nearest-station day-of-year series.
• All 53 NBM variables are now archived with full float precision.
• Lambda functions can now subscribe to the event bus based on configuration.
• Forecast records now support per-domain snapshots and a CycleComplete event.
• Today's elapsed high temperature is now presented as an upcoming high in the evening.
• Velocity product codes are now renderable in radar, and storm tracks can be shown on the map preview.
• A snapshot job for forecast-of-record is now available for each domain.
• SPC fire weather and WPC excessive rainfall discussions are now ingested into the system.
• Sw-agent: Stage A forecast-change detection (run-to-run deltas, no new storage).
• The /v1/outlooks API now provides probabilities per hazard, significant severe alerts, and SPC discussions.
• The /v1/outlooks endpoint is routed to SwApiOrigin at the edge.
• SPC outlook narrative IDs now follow the correct format, SWODY.
• Status page configuration changes now trigger a deploy of the freshness monitor.
• The wx-chat and wx-mcp services are retired.
• Public status reports now include the AI surface from wx-chat alarms.
• The business context path is now instrumented in the Sw-agent.
• Sw-agent tools are mounted on flagship and probabilistic evaluation gates.
• Pins for wxag, wxindex, and wxblend are updated to include recent fixes.
• The agriculture widget load failure issue has been addressed.
• The upgrade widget now displays correctly at tier limit.
• The email consent prompt now behaves correctly, even if previously given.
• The Sw-agent now supports voice, HTML email, and tone evaluations.
• The Sw-agent now includes production quality signals and fixes the wx-chat alarm wiring.
• Weather alert records now sync correctly without crashing.
• Scheduled briefings now send as expected, even when escalation blocks occur.
• Agent deployment processes are now human-gated; some components are not yet in production.
• The Sw-agent harness now includes quality improvements like lean context injection and parallel reads.
• Verify third-party email addresses before allowing an agent to send messages.
• Make agent message approval a durable, revocable permission instead of a one-time prompt.

MCP

• Add a truth dimension to the skill sort key and ledger claim in forecast verification.
• Enable forecast skill qualification in sw-mcp and sw-agent.
• Rain hazard is now included in the outlooks with polygons and narrative.
• A new tool for getting climate normals is now available and whitelisted for the agent.
• Today's elapsed high temperature is now presented as an upcoming high in the evening.
• Stage A forecast-change detection now runs without storing new data.
• SPC outlook narrative IDs now follow the correct format, SWODY.
• The wx-chat and wx-mcp services are retired.
• Model-run provenance information is now available in query results.

Portal

• Publish the public accuracy scorecard in forecast verification.
• The public OpenAPI spec now correctly returns 403 for the /.well-known/deprecations endpoint.
• Web now includes llms-full.txt and an API catalog for agent discovery.

This week, Smarter Weather introduced updates across its map features, including deep-linking and visual polish, and enhanced its user experience on iOS and web platforms. The team also made improvements to the underlying data pipeline and agent deployment processes. Additionally, new newsletter and email features were rolled out to improve communication with users and partners.

Highlights

• The web map now applies deep links and syncs the URL during exploration.
• Tropical map overlay visuals have been polished, including symbols, dual-stroke lines, and the legend.
• The iOS home map preview tap-to-open feature has been restored.
• The agent now always emits day/night precipitation probability at standard detail level.
• The newsletter subscription service and UI are now available.

App

• The cross-platform deep-link framework includes a typed route registry and shared conformance fixtures.
• The web map now applies deep links and syncs the URL during exploration.
• Tapping the map preview on iOS opens the live map with camera and product.
• Tropical map overlay visuals have been polished, including symbols, dual-stroke lines, and the legend.
• The iOS home map preview tap-to-open feature has been restored.
• Tropical map inspector cards now include additional properties from NHC.
• The iOS version now re-vendors the sw-ui-spec 0.4.7, including day/night PoP on forecast days.
• Forecast day vs night PoP is now shown on iOS chat cards.
• The web agent map preview now shows CDN stills and no longer includes the Map Test deep-link.
• Updated the iOS app to use the latest sw-ui-spec version 0.4.6.
• Locked chat beta access to @smarterweather.com email addresses.
• Enhanced the user experience for SOTA agent on iOS and web, including generative UI and approvals.
• Corrected the Wind card compass arrow to point TO rather than FROM.
• Added coverage-aware gallery and calmer unavailable product widgets.
• Displayed an empty state for SOTA when location or GPS data is unavailable.
• Restored NWS headlines alongside CAP timing.
• Alert detail end times now match the CAP end times.
• You can now search for and star saved locations from Settings.
• The copy for receiving alerts has been clarified.
• Alert banner end times now match the alert detail end times.
• Weather canvas behavior now considers DeviceConditions and Low Power Mode.

API

• The user memory architecture includes profile, semantic memories, and episodic observations.
• The cross-platform deep-link framework includes a typed route registry and shared conformance fixtures.
• Chat map stills now support deep-linking into the live map with specific view parameters.
• The static map now supports a 3×3 tent spatial blend for packed precipitation stills.
• The NHC tropical ingest in the Wx pipeline has been fixed to include Content-Length.
• The map preview now enforces same-turn and day/night PoP prompt rules.
• Goes truecolor stills no longer appear blank due to tile size mismatch.
• The agent now uses hybrid default stills with NEXRAD retry and fallback.
• The static map now includes a packed precip compositor and NEXRAD error surfacing.
• Fixed map preview stills with default and product IDs.
• Ensured the Docker image includes the sw-ui-spec component.
• Locked chat beta access to @smarterweather.com email addresses.
• Enhanced the user experience for SOTA agent on iOS and web, including generative UI and approvals.
• Renamed the sw-agent conversations bucket.
• Moved sw-agent production to the main member account.
• Switched users-table to the production account.
• Redeployed the sw-agent.
• Corrected the production CD target account for the consumer platform.
• Launched Phase 1 of the flagship agent vNext, including the sw-agent service and libs/agent-harness.
• Made the newsletter digest email more human-readable.
• Branded newsletter emails and fixed digest rendering issues.
• Configured the newsletter SES setup within the infrastructure.
• Set up SES sending foundation using Infrastructure as Code.
• Newsletter sending now supports dual-branch environments for main and development.
• Digest emails now render and can be triggered by promote actions.
• Newsletter subscription service and UI are now available.

MCP

• The user memory architecture includes profile, semantic memories, and episodic observations.
• The agent now always emits day/night precipitation probability at standard detail level.
• Moved sw-agent production to the main member account.
• Corrected the production CD target account for the consumer platform.
• Redeployed the sw-mcp.
• Launched Phase 1 of the flagship agent vNext, including the sw-agent service and libs/agent-harness.

Portal

• Made the newsletter digest email more human-readable.
• The changelog page now features a branded social preview image.
• Newsletter subscription service and UI are now available.

Summer has been busy at Smarter Weather. The map got a big visual upgrade with true-color satellite imagery, iOS picked up UV index conditions and per-location alerts you can tune to each saved place, and the API moved onto dedicated production infrastructure without a second of downtime. Here's the full rundown.

App

• GOES true-color satellite layers on the map, with hourly coverage that follows the map as you pan (iOS and web)
• UV index conditions, including an optional home-screen widget on iOS
• Per-location weather alerts on iOS: choose alert types for every saved place, or start from a preset and fine-tune
• Refreshed iOS settings with light/dark/system themes, faster search, and reorderable home-screen widgets

API

• api.smarterweather.com now runs on dedicated production infrastructure — migrated with zero downtime, same endpoint and keys (details on the blog)

This week, Smarter Weather released updates across its website, APIs, and mobile applications. Changes include new advisory feeds, user interface improvements, and enhancements to alert and monitoring features.

Highlights

• The status site UX for resolve and reopen actions has been updated.
• A new NWS advisory feed for CPC UV Index messages has been added.
• The UV Index writer now correctly converts units from W/m2 to UV index.
• The freshness monitor now includes an event-driven flag, bug fixes, and a new GOES advisory feed.
• The portal has been overhauled with new content and a new root domain at developers.smarterweather.com.

App

• The status site UX for resolve and reopen actions has been updated.
• The status site now correctly formats incident start times as relative times.
• The Android beta PWA now uses app.* URLs and prefers fullscreen display.
• Mobile viewport and safe-area handling have been improved for standalone PWA.
• The beta PWA start URL now points to app.*, not apex.
• Per-product alert toggles now support partial category states.
• Default and custom alert types can now be overridden per location.
• The alert category L2 info sheets explain what each bucket covers.
• A Status link has been added to the footers of marketing/portal and web app pages.
• The status page no longer shows the mistaken Clerk satellite CD and now uses the allowed subdomain.
• The status page fixes the No signal pill wrap and adjusts spacing for past-incident cards.
• The status CD issue with sharp not resolvable for shared OG renderer has been fixed.
• Add Status link to marketing/portal and web app footers.
• The status.smarterweather.com site now features a marketing shell, responsive layout, nested advisories, and warming states.
• The PWA toast about a new version being available is now fixed to avoid getting stuck, and auto-update is now silent.
• The iOS and web apps now feature config-driven Try-it deep-link CTAs in the What's New section.
• Interactive controls for What's New are now more secure.
• You can now see multiple locations and control alerts for each on iOS.
• Alert types now include animated presets and explanations of filter composition.
• Multi-location alert notifications now support multiple API targets and deduplication.
• iOS alert settings now include presets, toggles for warning, watch, statement, and hazard categories.
• Alert notification filtering now uses shared catalogs and supports various filters and preferences.
• Multi-location schema added to user notification settings.
• Security information is now available on all hosts, along with developer documentation in JSON-LD format.
• Web interface improvements include a Google Analytics linker strip, a real logo for Open Graph, first-party agent artifacts, a custom Clerk UI, and uniform element widths.
• The portal footer now includes links to the Company and Developers pages.
• The apex hero search now correctly handles route grammar and pre-fills search queries.
• Headers policy for migrate.html has been fixed to use CSP via SecurityHeadersConfig.
• A localStorage migration bridge has been added for Track-E beta to app transition.
• The hostname for CRA has been decoupled and OG service is now on app.smarterweather.com.
• Web CRA has been repointed to api.smarterweather.com and production path plumbing has been updated.

API

• A new NWS ADM advisory feed for CPC UV Index messages has been added.
• The QMD publishers for NBM are experiencing a cycle delay.
• The UV Index writer now correctly converts units from W/m2 to UV index.
• The freshness monitor includes an event-driven flag, bug fixes, and a new GOES advisory feed.
• AirNow AQI values above 500 are now supported.
• Per-product alert toggles now support partial category states.
• AirNow URLs have been restored after upstream renaming.
• The freshness monitor now handles etag-idle ingest and catalog silence without false outages.
• Default and custom alert types can now be overridden per location.
• The alert category L2 info sheets explain what each bucket covers.
• False freshness outages caused by catalog entities that are never heard are now fixed.
• The freshness-monitor now includes IAM permissions for silence anchors and public advisory types.
• Freshness monitoring now correctly handles no-signal escalation, rollup ranking, anti-flap measures, s3_json serving signal, and alarm rewires.
• Fixes have been made to prevent 404 errors on the status page caused by wrong bucket name and missing CloudFront behavior.
• Status-page email subscriptions now support subscriber store/API, SES notifier, double opt-in, and relayed provider updates.
• Provider advisory feed adapters have been added for automatic outage communication ingestion.
• The status page now supports public aliasing, surfaces/categories, Platform Services block, and portal status pill.
• The status page displays uptime history, past incidents, and offers an RSS feed.
• The Sw-api now provides a public GET /v1/status platform data-freshness endpoint.
• Multi-location alert notifications now support multiple API targets and deduplication.
• Alert notification filtering now uses shared catalogs and supports various filters and preferences.
• The static map service now includes a production deployment reference.
• A new keyless reconciliation lane has been added to the meter reconciliation process.
• Errors related to Stripe permissions and authentication now return explicit 502 status codes.
• CORS settings for billing now include allowed origins for developers.smarterweather.com in production.
• Stripe checkout user experience has been completed.
• A custom sign-in UI and theme parity between dashboard and authentication have been implemented.
• A request-access waitlist flow and limited preview copy are now available.
• The hostname for CRA has been decoupled and OG service is now on app.smarterweather.com.
• Mode-aware base URL support has been added for Smoke-auth with OriginVerifyMode=enforce.
• A production edge stack has been added for api.smarterweather.com.
• The sw-api migration includes a pre-flight for origin verification and a Route53 cutover.

MCP

• Freshness monitoring now correctly handles no-signal escalation, rollup ranking, anti-flap measures, s3_json serving signal, and alarm rewires.
• The Sw-mcp now includes the get_platform_status tool and data_status forecast annotations.
• The service now serves a well-known JSON file for the Glama connector.
• The x402 production environment is now live with CDP facilitator authentication and shadow mode.

Portal

• Changelog entries derived from stubs have been cleared for a fresh start.
• The website changelog content store now pulls data from markdown files.
• Add Status link to marketing/portal and web app footers.
• The SLA page and DATA_FRESHNESS.md now include cross-links to status.smarterweather.com.
• The status page now supports public aliasing, surfaces/categories, Platform Services block, and portal status pill.
• Shared Open Graph image generator and About page mission preview are now available.
• The About page mission statement has been updated.
• The service now serves a well-known JSON file for the Glama connector.
• Security information is now available on all hosts, along with developer documentation in JSON-LD format.
• Errors related to Stripe permissions and authentication now return explicit 502 status codes.
• Marketing pages now have a consistent content width across all tabs.
• Web interface improvements include a Google Analytics linker strip, a real logo for Open Graph, first-party agent artifacts, a custom Clerk UI, and uniform element widths.
• The portal has been overhauled with new agent-first content and a flagship onboarding experience.
• The portal now features a unified three-tier content width system.
• Navigation active states, host-aware dashboard pills, and dark mode support have been added to the portal.
• Marketing pages now have width constraints and host-aware call-to-action buttons.
• Stripe checkout user experience has been completed.
• The portal now resides at developers.smarterweather.com root.
• A custom sign-in UI and theme parity between dashboard and authentication have been implemented.
• A request-access waitlist flow and limited preview copy are now available.
• Follow-up updates include fixing the pricing tab, curating the blog, and creating a single developer home page.
• The platform now has a new design with a ChatGPT-like shell, a composer typeahead, and dark mode.
• The apex hero search now correctly handles route grammar and pre-fills search queries.
• Content polish and compliance updates have been made for Track-E Phase A.
• Edge SEO fixes, security-header parity, and www redirector have been implemented for Track-E.