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    "title": "LMKwhen Docs Blog",
    "home_page_url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/",
    "description": "LMKwhen Docs Blog",
    "items": [
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/instant-forecast-alerts/",
            "content_html": "<p>Forecast-threshold rules — heat, humidity, wind, precipitation, tropical, and more — now evaluate the moment a location is created, imported, or moved, completing the instant-alert work from the last release. New locations no longer wait up to six hours for the next forecast cycle.</p>\n<h3 class=\"anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq\" id=\"what-is-new\">What is new<a href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/instant-forecast-alerts/#what-is-new\" class=\"hash-link\" aria-label=\"Direct link to What is new\" title=\"Direct link to What is new\" translate=\"no\">​</a></h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Instant forecast checks on change</strong> — creating, importing, moving, or re-enabling a location checks it against the latest forecast right away, alongside the watch, warning, advisory, and outlook checks that already ran instantly.</li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Moved locations re-checked immediately</strong> — move a location and it picks up the forecast for its new spot on the same change, not the next cycle.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 class=\"anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq\" id=\"behind-the-scenes\">Behind the scenes<a href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/instant-forecast-alerts/#behind-the-scenes\" class=\"hash-link\" aria-label=\"Direct link to Behind the scenes\" title=\"Direct link to Behind the scenes\" translate=\"no\">​</a></h3>\n<p>Forecast storage moved to a shared weather-grid model: locations that fall on the same forecast grid cell now share one stored value instead of each keeping its own copy. That speeds up every forecast cycle and sets the stage for coverage beyond the lower 48.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>There is nothing to turn on. Add or edit a location on the <strong>Locations</strong> page and its forecast rules take effect immediately.</p>",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/instant-forecast-alerts/",
            "title": "Forecast alerts are now instant, too",
            "summary": "Forecast-threshold rules — heat, humidity, wind, precipitation, tropical, and more — now evaluate the moment a location is created, imported, or moved, completing the instant-alert work from the last release. New locations no longer wait up to six hours for the next forecast cycle.",
            "date_modified": "2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/instant-location-eval/",
            "content_html": "<p>Locations are now checked the moment you change them. Add a location, import a list, move a location on the map, or re-enable one during active weather, and it is matched against every active watch, warning, advisory, and outlook right away, instead of waiting for the next data cycle.</p>\n<h3 class=\"anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq\" id=\"what-is-new\">What is new<a href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/instant-location-eval/#what-is-new\" class=\"hash-link\" aria-label=\"Direct link to What is new\" title=\"Direct link to What is new\" translate=\"no\">​</a></h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Instant evaluation on change</strong> — creating, importing, moving, or re-enabling a location evaluates it against all currently-active hazard polygons immediately. If it is already inside a warned area, the alert fires right away.</li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Move out, get an all-clear</strong> — moving a location out of a warned area sends an all-clear noting it is no longer in the warned area.</li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Move back in, the alert reopens</strong> — the original alert reopens with its history preserved, rather than starting a brand-new one.</li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>No flapping</strong> — a location sitting near a warning edge is capped at one movement notification every 15 minutes per alert, so quick back-and-forth movement will not flood you.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 class=\"anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq\" id=\"one-caveat\">One caveat<a href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/instant-location-eval/#one-caveat\" class=\"hash-link\" aria-label=\"Direct link to One caveat\" title=\"Direct link to One caveat\" translate=\"no\">​</a></h3>\n<p>Forecast-threshold rules — like heat, wind, or snowfall — still evaluate on the next forecast update. Instant forecast checks are coming next.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>There is nothing to turn on. Add or edit a location on the <strong>Locations</strong> page and it takes effect immediately.</p>",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/instant-location-eval/",
            "title": "Instant alerts for new and moved locations",
            "summary": "Locations are now checked the moment you change them. Add a location, import a list, move a location on the map, or re-enable one during active weather, and it is matched against every active watch, warning, advisory, and outlook right away, instead of waiting for the next data cycle.",
            "date_modified": "2026-07-22T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/new-forecast-products/",
            "content_html": "<p>This release roughly doubles the forecast data you can build alert rules on — new heat, humidity, precipitation, winter, tropical, and fire-weather products, all usable from the rule wizard today.</p>\n<h3 class=\"anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq\" id=\"heat--humidity\">Heat &amp; humidity<a href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/new-forecast-products/#heat--humidity\" class=\"hash-link\" aria-label=\"Direct link to Heat &amp; humidity\" title=\"Direct link to Heat &amp; humidity\" translate=\"no\">​</a></h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Heat Stress (WBGT)</strong> — Wet Bulb Globe Temperature, the metric used for work/rest scheduling. Alert at or above the NIOSH reference points (82°F alert, 88°F exposure).</li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Max Humidity</strong> and <strong>Min Humidity</strong> — daily relative-humidity extremes. Min Humidity at or below 15% is a common Red Flag / fire-danger criterion.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 class=\"anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq\" id=\"precipitation\">Precipitation<a href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/new-forecast-products/#precipitation\" class=\"hash-link\" aria-label=\"Direct link to Precipitation\" title=\"Direct link to Precipitation\" translate=\"no\">​</a></h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Precip Probability (12-hour)</strong> — chance of measurable precipitation in a 12-hour window.</li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Total Precipitation</strong> — running 3-day accumulation through each forecast day.</li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Excessive Rainfall Outlook (WPC)</strong> — categorical flash-flood risk (Marginal → High) for Days 1–5. The single best advance signal for flash flooding, often days ahead of any Flash Flood Watch.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 class=\"anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq\" id=\"winter\">Winter<a href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/new-forecast-products/#winter\" class=\"hash-link\" aria-label=\"Direct link to Winter\" title=\"Direct link to Winter\" translate=\"no\">​</a></h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Winter Precip Probability (WPC)</strong> — the chance that snow or ice reaches a threshold:<!-- -->\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\">Days 1–3: snow ≥ 4 in, ≥ 8 in, ≥ 12 in, and ice ≥ 0.25 in (Slight / Moderate / High probability bands)</li>\n<li class=\"\">Days 4–7: extended-range probability of ≥ 0.25 in of snow or sleet (10–90%)</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 class=\"anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq\" id=\"tropical\">Tropical<a href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/new-forecast-products/#tropical\" class=\"hash-link\" aria-label=\"Direct link to Tropical\" title=\"Direct link to Tropical\" translate=\"no\">​</a></h3>\n<p>Populated whenever the National Hurricane Center has an active system affecting your locations:</p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Threat levels</strong> — hurricane <strong>Wind</strong>, <strong>Storm Surge</strong>, <strong>Flooding Rain</strong>, and <strong>Tornado</strong> threat (None → Extreme).</li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Wind probabilities</strong> — chance of tropical-storm-force (34 kt), 50 kt, and hurricane-force (64 kt) winds.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 class=\"anchor anchorTargetStickyNavbar_Vzrq\" id=\"fire-weather\">Fire weather<a href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/new-forecast-products/#fire-weather\" class=\"hash-link\" aria-label=\"Direct link to Fire weather\" title=\"Direct link to Fire weather\" translate=\"no\">​</a></h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Dry Thunderstorm Outlook (SPC)</strong> — Isolated / Scattered dry-lightning risk, a leading cause of wildfire ignition, issued alongside the fire-weather outlooks.</li>\n</ul>\n<hr>\n<p>To use any of these, open the <strong>Rules</strong> page, start a new rule, and choose the product under the forecast (NDFD) or outlook (SPC / WPC) rule types. Set your threshold and you're done — see the <a class=\"\" href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/forecast-products/overview/\">Forecast Products</a> and <a class=\"\" href=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/alert-rules/wpc-outlooks/\">WPC Outlooks</a> guides for the full details.</p>",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/new-forecast-products/",
            "title": "A big batch of new forecast products to alert on",
            "summary": "This release roughly doubles the forecast data you can build alert rules on — new heat, humidity, precipitation, winter, tropical, and fire-weather products, all usable from the rule wizard today.",
            "date_modified": "2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/activity-log/",
            "content_html": "<p>When a teammate edits an alert rule, adds a location, or changes a delivery channel, you can now see it. <strong>Settings → Activity</strong> shows a running history of changes to your organization — locations added or removed, alert rules created or edited, delivery channels and contact methods changed, collection and tag updates, team member changes, and plan changes. Each entry tells you who made the change, when, and the specifics: which location (with its address and coordinates), which collection, what fields changed.</p>\n<p>Automatic, system-driven changes are labeled too — so a plan downgrade that disabled some locations, or a carrier opt-out on a phone number, shows up clearly rather than silently. The activity log is available to organization owners and admins.</p>\n",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/activity-log/",
            "title": "An activity log for your account",
            "summary": "When a teammate edits an alert rule, adds a location, or changes a delivery channel, you can now see it. Settings → Activity shows a running history of changes to your organization — locations added or removed, alert rules created or edited, delivery channels and contact methods changed, collection and tag updates, team member changes, and plan changes. Each entry tells you who made the change, when, and the specifics: which location (with its address and coordinates), which collection, what fields changed.",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/alert-maps/",
            "content_html": "<p>Every alert now comes with a map. Your email and Slack notifications show the hazard area — the warning polygon or the forecast outlook — with a pin on the exact property it affects, so you can tell at a glance whether the threat is right over your location or just nearby.</p>\n<p>For Storm Prediction Center outlooks the map draws the full risk picture: each category — Marginal, Slight, Enhanced, and up — in its own color, with the band over your location highlighted, so a \"Slight Risk\" alert actually looks like the day's outlook instead of a single shape. And when you tap the link in a text message it now unfurls as a rich preview on your phone — the map and a one-line summary — before you even open it.</p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A severe weather alert email showing a map of the warning area with a pin on the affected property\" src=\"https://lmkwhen.com/docs/assets/images/alert-maps-3e91e525342250650e438764928e7304.png\" width=\"727\" height=\"1301\" class=\"img_ev3q\"></p>",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/alert-maps/",
            "title": "See exactly where the weather is — maps in your alerts",
            "summary": "Every alert now comes with a map. Your email and Slack notifications show the hazard area — the warning polygon or the forecast outlook — with a pin on the exact property it affects, so you can tell at a glance whether the threat is right over your location or just nearby.",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-24T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/informative-alert-updates/",
            "content_html": "<p>The National Weather Service revises an active warning constantly — a tornado threat goes from radar-indicated to observed, hail grows from 1\" to 1.75\", an expiration gets pushed back. Until now those revisions either passed silently or arrived as a repeat of the original alert. Now every update spells out exactly what changed: \"Tornado threat now Observed; Hail 1.00\" → 1.75\"; Warning extended to 4:45 PM CDT.\" You'll see it on the alert page, in the history timeline and CSV export, and in the text, email, and Slack update itself.</p>\n<p>To keep the signal clean, you control how often updates reach you, per rule: <strong>Escalations only</strong> (the default) notifies you when a warning gets more dangerous, <strong>All updates</strong> sends every change, and <strong>Off</strong> stays quiet until the all-clear. Times are shown in the warning's own local zone, and routine continuations that don't materially change anything no longer ping you at all.</p>\n",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/informative-alert-updates/",
            "title": "Alert updates that tell you what changed",
            "summary": "The National Weather Service revises an active warning constantly — a tornado threat goes from radar-indicated to observed, hail grows from 1\" to 1.75\", an expiration gets pushed back. Until now those revisions either passed silently or arrived as a repeat of the original alert. Now every update spells out exactly what changed45 PM CDT.\" You'll see it on the alert page, in the history timeline and CSV export, and in the text, email, and Slack update itself.",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-15T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/multi-property-sms/",
            "content_html": "<p>When a storm sweeps across your portfolio, you used to get a separate text for every location in its path. Now we group them: a single message listing all affected properties, so a fast-moving severe thunderstorm warning reads as one clear update instead of a buzzing pocket. Alerts that require acknowledgment still arrive individually, so a reply always refers to exactly one location.</p>",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/multi-property-sms/",
            "title": "One text, all your affected properties",
            "summary": "When a storm sweeps across your portfolio, you used to get a separate text for every location in its path. Now we group them: a single message listing all affected properties, so a fast-moving severe thunderstorm warning reads as one clear update instead of a buzzing pocket. Alerts that require acknowledgment still arrive individually, so a reply always refers to exactly one location.",
            "date_modified": "2026-06-05T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "Improved"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/quiet-hours-digest/",
            "content_html": "<p>Not every alert needs to wake you up. With quiet hours, overnight notifications are held and rolled into a single digest delivered when your morning starts. The digest includes a shareable summary page, so you can forward what happened overnight to anyone — no login required. You can also choose to let critical warnings — like tornado, flash flood, and severe thunderstorm — break through quiet hours, so the alerts that matter most still reach you right away.</p>\n",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/quiet-hours-digest/",
            "title": "Quiet hours with a morning digest",
            "summary": "Not every alert needs to wake you up. With quiet hours, overnight notifications are held and rolled into a single digest delivered when your morning starts. The digest includes a shareable summary page, so you can forward what happened overnight to anyone — no login required. You can also choose to let critical warnings — like tornado, flash flood, and severe thunderstorm — break through quiet hours, so the alerts that matter most still reach you right away.",
            "date_modified": "2026-05-28T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/slack-alerts/",
            "content_html": "<p>You can now get LMKwhen alerts delivered straight to a Slack channel. Connect your workspace, pick a channel, and alerts arrive as rich messages with the location, hazard, and timing at a glance — and your team can acknowledge an alert without leaving Slack. It's the easiest way to put severe weather in front of the whole team at once. Set it up under Notification Channels in your settings.</p>\n",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/slack-alerts/",
            "title": "Weather alerts in Slack",
            "summary": "You can now get LMKwhen alerts delivered straight to a Slack channel. Connect your workspace, pick a channel, and alerts arrive as rich messages with the location, hazard, and timing at a glance — and your team can acknowledge an alert without leaving Slack. It's the easiest way to put severe weather in front of the whole team at once. Set it up under Notification Channels in your settings.",
            "date_modified": "2026-04-01T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/bulk-address-upload/",
            "content_html": "<p>Managing dozens or hundreds of properties? Upload a CSV and we'll add every address in one pass, ready to attach to alert rules immediately. What used to be an afternoon of data entry is now a single upload.</p>",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/bulk-address-upload/",
            "title": "Add your whole portfolio at once",
            "summary": "Managing dozens or hundreds of properties? Upload a CSV and we'll add every address in one pass, ready to attach to alert rules immediately. What used to be an afternoon of data entry is now a single upload.",
            "date_modified": "2026-03-31T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/alert-rule-wizard/",
            "content_html": "<p>Setting up the right alerts is now a guided, three-path process. Choose official watches and warnings, severe weather outlooks for advance planning, or forecast thresholds like temperature and wind — and the wizard walks you through which locations and channels each rule covers. You get precise alerting without needing to know how weather products work behind the scenes.</p>",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/alert-rule-wizard/",
            "title": "A guided way to build alert rules",
            "summary": "Setting up the right alerts is now a guided, three-path process. Choose official watches and warnings, severe weather outlooks for advance planning, or forecast thresholds like temperature and wind — and the wizard walks you through which locations and channels each rule covers. You get precise alerting without needing to know how weather products work behind the scenes.",
            "date_modified": "2026-03-28T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/alert-history-export/",
            "content_html": "<p>You can now download your complete alert history as a spreadsheet — every alert, location, hazard, and timestamp. Useful for compliance documentation, insurance claims, or simply reviewing how a season treated your properties.</p>",
            "url": "https://lmkwhen.com/docs/changelog/alert-history-export/",
            "title": "Export your alert history",
            "summary": "You can now download your complete alert history as a spreadsheet — every alert, location, hazard, and timestamp. Useful for compliance documentation, insurance claims, or simply reviewing how a season treated your properties.",
            "date_modified": "2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "LMKwhen Team"
            },
            "tags": [
                "New"
            ]
        }
    ]
}