Changelog

We ship in public. Where the thing an entry describes can draw a picture from today’s data, it does.

1. September 2026, newest

   Publish lands on a moment picker, and a page for every alert

   • Every publish ask on the site opens the moment picker: tonight's games, a town, a warning, a storm, a fishing weekend, each pre-filled.
   • A page for every active alert, with the area drawn on its counties and the people under it.
   • The home page opens on the day's first moment, drawn large, with the rest as small multiples under it.
   • The old pitch stops leaking through share cards, the sitemap and llms.txt.

2. September 2026, earlier

   Editions on every moment

   • Five templates - game, snow day, hurricane, fishing, alert - each opening pre-filled from its page, asking for a call and a note.
   • One page and one vocabulary for every edition: the call, the mark against what the page said (agrees, stronger, softer, differs), the note.
   • Editions appear on the moment's own page next to ours, on the forecaster's page, and in their followers' email.
   • No grade shown anywhere public; observations sit beside the forecast they belong to.

3. September 2026, earlier

   Follow a park, a stadium, a storm or a station

   • One Follow button on the moment pages; an email when the rating moves, a storm's track shifts or a station's day changes.
   • The checkers run on a cron and send one email per change, never a digest of nothing.
   • A /following page to see and undo what you follow.

4. September 2026, earlier

   The board

   • Every game on the slate ranked by how much the weather matters, in words - favours scoring, suppresses scoring, calm - never a number.
   • A snapshot every hour so the morning can be compared with first pitch.
   • A page per NFL game, named the way people search for it.
   • The header, the footer and the home page rebuilt around the moments.

5. August 2026, newest

   Ballpark and stadium weather

   • Thirty parks and thirty stadiums drawn to scale and true north, with the wind resolved against the field.
   • Gusts from HRRR; the Weather Service grid carries neither gusts nor an hourly rerun.
   • The archived forecasts graded against what actually fell, and the published figure corrected when it overstated the error.
   • Conversions sent to Google Analytics as well as PostHog.

6. August 2026, earlier

   Fishing conditions

   • 260 NOAA tide stations with the next tides, the nearest buoy, water temperature and sea state.
   • Conditions for being on the water, on a five-step scale, not whether anything bites.
   • Follow a station from every page.

7. August 2026, earlier

   Warnings and storm reports

   • Every active National Weather Service alert, ranked by the people under it.
   • Storm reports from the Local Storm Report feed, matched to the warnings that covered them - as coverage, not a score.
   • The national feed cached, instead of 727KB refetched per page view.

8. August 2026, earlier

   Hurricane tracker

   • Every active storm with NHC's forecast track drawn point by point - the positions issued, not a cone.
   • Every advisory archived, so a page still renders when NHC is slow and so the forecasts can be compared with the track afterwards.
   • Areas to watch, intensity in mph, a watermark on the map.

9. August 2026, earlier

   Snow day predictor

   • 390 towns with a chance of a closure for every school day ahead, from the forecast and each town's own snow climatology.
   • Nationwide town and ZIP lookup; a map per state.
   • The call archived each day so it can be checked against what the district did.
   • An email the evening before a likely closure, for the towns people follow.

10. August 2026, earlier

    Forecaster tools and the city pages

    • Map image maker: draw a forecast map, download a PNG, no account.
    • The Skew-T sounding viewer rendered on the server, with a PNG download.
    • City pages given climatology, county alerts and the nearest sounding, then reindexed.
    • NWS forecasts archived from this point so accuracy can be scored later.

11. July 2026

    Try before you sign up

    • The storm map opens without an account; sign-up happens at publish, inline.
    • One onboarding flow - name your page - wherever the sign-up started.

12. May 2026

    Starter maps

    • Five starter region sets - NYC tri-state, Sierra Nevada, Northeast coast, Chicagoland, Wasatch Front - to load into the map editor.
    • Reading time, hero bands and tables on the blog.

13. April 2026

    Magic links and email sequences

    • Sign in with a magic link.
    • A welcome sequence for new forecasters and a nudge for dormant ones.
    • Follower accounts, so a reader can follow without publishing.

14. March 2026

    For forecasters

    • A page for forecasters with the pitch and the templates, in the main navigation.
    • Conversion funnel events, so the sign-up path can be measured.

15. February 2026

    Weather briefs and impact scales

    • Short updates between storms, with four severity levels and an email to followers.
    • Custom three to five level impact scales, shown on forecasts and share images.

16. January 2026

    Map templates, profiles and notifications

    • Save region sets and reuse them.
    • Social links, cover image and logo on forecaster profiles.
    • An email to followers when a forecast is published, with one-click unsubscribe.

17. December 2025

    Launch

    • Interactive map drawing with MapLibre and Terra Draw.
    • Storm and daily forecast types, share images, embeddable widgets, audience analytics.

Written from the commit log. The pictures are today’s: the game on the board, the alert in effect, the last archived storm, the town and station people follow. Entries about the site itself carry no picture.