AccessiWeather v0.7.2

Added

• You can now choose "Use my current location" when adding or updating a saved location. AccessiWeather asks the OS once, only after you press the button, and keeps manual search available if location access is denied or unavailable.
• Alert updates can now use their own mappable sound in sound packs.
• Settings > Audio can now enable specific-alert sounds per sound pack, so packs with sounds like tornado_watch and tornado_warning keep working while severity-only packs stay simple.
• First-run setup can now import existing settings and encrypted API keys from the wizard, or exit with Escape at any wizard step when you want to configure everything yourself.
• You can now search for a US street address when adding or editing a location, so AccessiWeather can save coordinates for that specific address instead of the nearest city or ZIP result.
• Saved locations now stay sorted alphabetically in the location list (#667).
• You can now choose to sort saved locations alphabetically or nearest to the current location.
• Daily Climate Reports in Forecaster Notes — You can now read the latest NWS Daily Climate Report for supported US climate stations, with station-aware lookup, cached refreshes, history through Advanced Lookup, and optional update notifications.
• National Products in Forecaster Notes — Forecaster Notes now opens a dedicated National Products dialog for SPC, WPC, NHC, CPC, and other national NWS text products. The new view replaces the old Nationwide Discussions scraper with IEM AFOS plain-text products while keeping the existing Advanced Lookup path available for direct product searches (#641).
• Guided Advanced Lookup in Forecaster Notes — Advanced Lookup now organizes NWS and IEM text products into product groups with clearer product choices, office selection, date presets, result limits, sort order, source selection, aviation AFD, center, WMO, and text-match filters.

Changed

• Linux downloads now ship as .tar.gz tarballs instead of ZIP files.
• Alert sounds and sound-pack creation now focus on alert severity instead of a long list of specific alert names, while existing packs can keep their older mappings.

Fixed

• Edit Location and Settings > AI prompt fields now expose their visible labels correctly to screen readers.
• Reliability fixes now prevent several update, notification, tray tooltip, dialog, NOAA radio, and alert-refresh edge cases from interrupting normal use.
• Detected current locations outside the US now get an editable place name when reverse geocoding can identify the coordinates.
• Editing a location after using "Use my current location" now refreshes the editable name and saved US metadata for the detected point, so locations don't quietly fall back to metric defaults.
• Notification sounds now recover after Windows sleep or hibernation, so update
  notifications don't fall back to only the generic Windows toast sound.
• Plain Language Summary now shows and speaks which OpenRouter model it is trying, when it falls back from a busy free model, and why the final model was used.
• Forecaster Notes AI summaries now use the same default prompt for every text product unless you've set custom AI prompt options.
• Default AI summaries now stay grounded in the provided weather text or data, so they are less likely to invent forecast details when summarizing reports.
• Relaunching AccessiWeather on Windows now reliably restores the already-running window from desktop shortcuts, direct EXE launches, and portable copies without relying on the window title.
• Restoring the running AccessiWeather window on relaunch, and bringing it to the front from a notification, now work reliably on 64-bit Windows instead of leaving the window in the background.
• Relaunching AccessiWeather no longer briefly activates the already-running window twice in rare fallback cases.
• Alt+F4 now stays routed through the normal close-to-tray behavior after switching between All Locations and saved locations.
• Automatic Windows startup now stays in the background when AccessiWeather is already running, and startup shortcuts are recreated with a stable AccessiWeather target for portable copies.
• The Windows installer now closes running AccessiWeather copies automatically before installing, then can launch the updated app normally when setup exits.
• Alt+F4 now respects "Minimize to the notification area when closing" again, so keyboard users can send AccessiWeather to the background without exiting.
• Launching AccessiWeather no longer focuses a browser tab whose title starts with "AccessiWeather" instead of opening the app.
• Open-Meteo location searches now handle common city/state or city/country entries like "New York, NY" and "London, UK" when adding locations.
• The Windows installer now waits for any running AccessiWeather copy before replacing files, including portable copies launched from a folder.
• Plain Language Summary now works for Daily Climate Reports and other Forecaster Notes text products, not just AFD, HWO, and SPS.
• Weather Assistant now avoids a removed OpenRouter free model, so automatic free mode no longer fails with a 404 before answering.
• Opening AccessiWeather no longer sends catch-up notifications for older Forecaster Notes updates; text-product notifications now start from the current session, and HWO/SPS checks run after their latest products are loaded.
• Default soundpack now includes specific sounds for mapped weather alert types.
• Pirate Weather minute-by-minute precipitation notifications now wait until start/stop changes are near-term and no longer count down repeatedly for the same rain event.
• Saving Settings no longer waits on the Windows startup shortcut check unless you actually change the launch-at-startup checkbox.
• Settings now opens without waiting on the Windows startup shortcut check.
• The weather-refresh completion sound is now off by default, and switching to a cached location no longer plays it before the real refresh finishes.
• Open-Meteo forecasts now keep unit-aware wind, visibility, snow depth, pressure, and freezing-level details instead of misreading feet, meters, or kilometers in some payloads.
• Open-Meteo daily forecasts now include low temperatures and wind details when the API provides them.
• Weather history comparisons now skip incomplete Open-Meteo archive responses instead of comparing against placeholder zero values.
• Pressure outlooks no longer show unrealistic swings when current conditions and hourly forecasts use mixed pressure reference levels.
• NWS and Pirate Weather data handling is more accurate: NWS alert lookups now avoid rejected radius parameters and stale cross-location alert caches, while Pirate Weather no longer treats precipitation rate as accumulated amount or reuses US units for international minutely precipitation checks.
• NWS forecasts now pair daytime highs with following nighttime lows when NWS provides day/night forecast periods.
• Smart Auto mode now keeps the NWS forecaster discussion from its main NWS fetch, avoids a duplicate follow-up request when it already has that discussion, and chooses Open-Meteo for extended US forecasts even if Pirate Weather is listed first.
• Smart Auto mode now fills in current condition text from Open-Meteo or Pirate Weather when NWS reports an empty or unknown condition.
• Canadian locations near the border no longer try NWS in Automatic mode when an older/manual location is missing a saved country code.
• IEM text-product lookup errors no longer appear as if they were valid forecaster text.
• Alerts now honor your selected alert area during regular refreshes, including state and zone alert modes.
• Zone alert mode now checks both county and forecast zones so county-based watches and warnings are less likely to be missed.
• The "Launch automatically at startup" setting now updates the system startup entry instead of only saving the checkbox.
• Repeated checks of unchanged alerts no longer use up notification rate-limit capacity before newer alerts are handled.
• The update dialog now shows release notes as screen-reader-friendly plain text instead of raw Markdown.
• Linux packages now include the files needed for notification sounds.
• Linux packages now avoid a startup compatibility issue on some systems.
• Forecaster Notes now starts with NWS discussion tabs only and adds IEM-backed tabs only when active SPC/WPC products apply to your selected location.
• Pirate Weather now requests API v2 data and carries v2 precipitation types like freezing rain and wintry mix into current, daily, and hourly forecasts.
• Forecaster Notes now hides Hazardous Weather Outlook and Special Weather Statement tabs when NWS confirms there is no matching product for the selected office.