BowEcho v0.34.11

BowEcho v0.34.11

This release substantially expands native model analysis and export, improves
satellite loading and map behavior, and fixes several radar timeline and
inspection workflows.

Model and GRIB analysis

• Shift-clicking the map can now place a fixed model/GRIB probe. The inspector
  reports the sampled value and units together with the run, lead, and
  authoritative valid time, and the probe remains fixed while the view or
  model timestep changes.
• Forecast graph plots the fixed point through locally stored forecast
  times. The same graph can display the selected field's domain-wide minimum
  or maximum, preserves missing-data gaps, and reads only the required grid
  windows and cached field statistics.
• Model point sampling now uses the same bilinear curvilinear-grid sampling as
  the displayed field, including a fallback to adjacent valid cells.
• The Models GIS controls now use packaged data in release builds. Native plots
  include detailed worldwide country, state/province, coastline, and lake
  context, with U.S. county boundaries available at county detail.
• The floating Native plot window now exposes durable map-detail, layer,
  line-style, sampling, plot-style, output-scale, and saved-domain controls.
  Rerender applies those choices immediately, and applied settings are
  restored on the next launch.

WRF processing and export

• Quick import and full diagnostics publish each completed WRF timestep to the
  Models library immediately after its atomic store commit. The optional
  Follow completed timesteps while processing control advances the viewer
  as new times finish; turning it off preserves the timestep being inspected.
• GIF loop and MP4 video actions in Field tools render the current field
  across all completed timesteps using the native plot pipeline. GIF encoding
  is built in; MP4 export uses ffmpeg when it is available on PATH.
• Animation export writes an ordered PNG sequence beside the final media file,
  reports progress, uses bounded frame memory, and removes an unfinished output
  when cancelled.

Satellite

• Tropical true-color requests now load the latest usable native frame instead
  of starting a large multi-frame visible download. The visible action is
  disabled on the storm's night side with IR remaining available.
• One-shot tropical and RGB loads now select their completed result atomically
  even when its satellite, sector, resolution, or focused crop differs from the
  live-follow panel. GOES RGB requests retain the selected detail settings.
• While the map is moving, an older satellite texture is reprojected across the
  current map view instead of sliding as a single rectangle and snapping into
  place after movement stops.
• SimSat results now have Save plot PNG, using the same georeferenced
  1600x1200 export path as the satellite Native plot window.

Radar timeline and inspection

• Newly arriving low-level cuts no longer force the display through every new
  sweep by default. Follow new low cuts is now an explicit persisted option
  with a configurable minimum time gap, and it pauses during loop playback.
• Archive warning previews retain already visible, time-valid polygons until
  the final warning sources arrive, preventing warning boxes from briefly
  disappearing while stepping through the radar timeline.
• Storm-track analysis now warms complete frames from the loaded radar loop in
  bounded background batches. The controls show analysis progress and make it
  clearer that clicking a track exposes its motion and valid times.
• The weak-reflectivity gate filter now applies to reflectivity itself as well
  as velocity and dual-pol decluttering, and its label and threshold describe
  that behavior directly.
• Inspector-card visibility and each inspector field option now persist across
  app restarts. Fixed probes also provide explicit forecast-graph and unpin
  actions.
• The bottom status bar compacts background activity on narrower windows to
  avoid overlapping status text, and the recent-radar-cache action is shown
  only when it can target the selected U.S. radar unambiguously.

Operational notes

• Every official release asset is built from the v0.34.11 tag by GitHub
  Actions. Matching .sha256 files are published beside the Windows, macOS,
  and Linux downloads.