Version history for Earth Alerts
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Changes for v2019.1.252 - v2019.1.254
- Bug fixes related to retrieving active tropical
- cyclone information from the Joint Typhoon Warning
- Center
Changes for v2019.1.100 - v2019.1.124
- Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes have been
- made to various screens throughout the application
- You are now required to have an API key for all
- Google based geocoding activities performed by
- the Earth Alerts application. This requires each
- user to obtain their own API key from Google
- before you can add any U.S. or Global locations.
- See the Settings >> Application screen for more
- information. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Changes for v2019.1.62 - v2019.1.70
- Minor bug fixes;
- re-compiled using Visual Studio
- 2019 and for .NET Framework version 4.7.2
Changes for v2018.1.10 - v2019.1.28
- Earth Alerts is back from the dead! Numerous bug
- fixes to get the application back up and running
Changes for v2016.1.20 - v2016.1.22
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes
Changes for v2016.1.16 - v2016.1.20
- Code changes to restore the capability of processing the latest Area Forecast Discussion and Hazardous Weather Outlook reports; this fix was necessary due to recent changes made on the National Weather Service website for text products
Changes for v2016.1.12 - v2016.1.16
- Volcano
- Volcano reports located under the U.S. Overview section are currently unavailable.
- The USGS recently made changes to their website and data feeds, which has broken functionality within Earth Alerts. Sorry, no ETA on a fix for this issue. The volcano reports located under the Global Overview section are NOT affected and will continue to be updated on a weekly basis.
- Weather
- U.S. Overview - bug fixes to the Severe Weather section which restores the ability to process thunderstorm / tornado reports issued by the Storm Prediction Center
Changes for v2015.2.22 - v2016.1.12
- Volcano
- Volcano reports located under the U.S. Overview section are currently unavailable. The USGS recently made changes to their website and data feeds, which has broken functionality within Earth Alerts. Sorry, no ETA on a fix for this issue. The volcano reports located under the Global Overview section are NOT affected and will continue to be updated on a weekly basis.
- Weather
- Bug fixes to the Current Conditions screen which restores the capability of displaying UV index, Pollen and Air Quality data when available from Weather Underground
- General/UI
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes
Changes for v2015.1.70 - v2015.1.76
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and and code optimization; fixed a bug that was the ability to successfully add locations in Hawaii
Changes for v2015.1.62 - v2015.1.70
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and and code optimization
Changes for v2015.1.60 - v2015.1.62
- Bug fixes related to processing reports for storms in the Western Pacific region
Changes for v2015.1.56 - v2015.1.60
- Bug fixes related to processing reports for storms in the Central Pacific region
Changes for v2015.1.54 - v2015.1.56
- Minor code changes to improve the processing of icons associated with the daily Local Forecast details
Changes for v2015.1.52 - v2015.1.54
- Adjustments to the code to better detect if any version of Google Earth is installed
Changes for v2015.1.50 - v2015.1.52
- Bug fixes and minor formatting changes to the incident reports
Changes for v2015.1.48 - v2015.1.50
- Global/U.S. Locations: bug fix related to occasional metric/U.S. unit conversion errors with local forecast information
Changes for v2015.1.46 - v2015.1.48
- Fixed minor formatting issues related to information displaying on the NOAA Image of the Day screen
Changes for v2015.1.44 - v2015.1.46
- Global/U.S. Locations: bug fixes related to searching/adding new locations under Settings -> Locations
Changes for v2015.1.32 - v2015.1.44
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Global/U.S. Locations - removed Weather Underground and added WeatherForYou as a data provider for local forecast information; however, current conditions information will continue to be retrieved from Weather Underground for all Global and U.S. locations; also, U.S. Locations now have the option of choosing between National Weather Service NDFD or WeatherForYou as the source for local forecast information
Changes for v2015.1.28 - v2015.1.32
- General/UI
- U.S. Locations: bug fixes related to searching/adding new U.S. locations under Settings -> Locations
- Volcano
- Global/U.S. Overview - bug fix for an issue that was preventing volcano photos from displaying in Earth Alerts
Changes for v2015.1.20 - v2015.1.28
- U.S. Locations: bug fixes related to searching/adding new U.S. locations under Settings -> Locations
- Fixed a bug where the NOAA Image of the Day information and image were not displaying
- Fixed bugs that were preventing the National Weather Service alert map images and map legend information from downloading
Changes for v2015.1.20 - v2015.1.22
- Fixed bugs that were preventing the National Weather Service alert map images and map legend information from downloading
Changes for v2015.1.18 - v2015.1.20
- Weather
- Bug fix to display the correct Regional Radar map image for some Southeastern U.S. locations
Changes for v2015.1.12 - v2015.1.14
- Adjustments to the code to better detect if Google Earth/Google Earth Pro are installed
Changes for v2014.1.202 - v2015.1.12
- Significant code changes related to the processing of earthquake event reports and images as a result of recent content/layout changes on the USGS Earthquake Hazards
Changes for v2014.1.200 - v2014.1.202
- Global/U.S. Overview - bug fix for an issue that was preventing most volcano activity reports from being transmitted via email
Changes for v2014.1.198 - v2014.1.200
- Global/U.S. Locations - minor tweaks to improve handling of rain, snow and other precip conditions in the Local Forecast data
Changes for v2014.1.196 - v2014.1.198
- Weather
- Global/U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes and tweaks to the processing of current conditions data
- General/UI
- Various minor bug fixes
Changes for v2014.1.194 - v2014.1.196
- Weather
- Global/U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes and tweaks to the processing of current conditions data
- General/UI
- Various minor bug fixes
Changes for v2014.1.192 - v2014.1.194
- Global/U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes and tweaks to the processing of local forecast data
Changes for v2014.1.190 - v2014.1.192
- Global/U.S. Overview - fixed a bug that was preventing the volcano photos from appearing
Changes for v2014.1.188 - v2014.1.190
- Global/U.S. Locations
- significant code changes related to processing of local forecast data retrieved from Weather Underground due to recent changes on their website
- General/UI
- Various minor bug fixes
Changes for v2014.1.186 - v2014.1.188
- Bug fix to show the correct count of active incident reports; minor formatting changes to the reports
- Various minor bug fixes
Changes for v2014.1.184 - v2014.1.186
- Bug fix that was preventing Weather Underground maps from appearing for active storms located in the Central Pacific region
Changes for v2014.1.182 - v2014.1.184
- General/UI Bug fix/change to use a new National Weather Service web address to replace an obsolete one which was producing a "Could not find Locality FIPS code information"
- error when trying to add new U.S. Locations
Changes for v2014.1.180 - v2014.1.182
- Bug fixes that were preventing display of active storms in the Central/Western Pacific regions that are currently being monitored by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, but were previously being monitored by the National Hurricane Center or Central Pacific Hurricane Center
- Coding changes to reference the new Google Maps API links; various minor bug
Changes for v2014.1.178 - v2014.1.180
- Bug fix that was preventing display of active storms in the East/Central/Western Pacific basins being currently monitored by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center that were previously being monitored by the National Hurricane Center/Central Pacific Hurricane Center
Changes for v2014.1.176 - v2014.1.178
- Tropical
- Bug fix that was preventing display of storm category and wind speed in report headers for some active storms
- Weather
- Bug fixes that were preventing display of some local forecast icons
Changes for v2014.1.174 - v2014.1.176
- Tropical Bug fix that was preventing the Weather Underground graphics from displaying for active storms currently located in the Central Pacific basin
Changes for v2014.1.172 - v2014.1.174
- Weather U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes related to processing Local Forecast data retrieved from the National Weather Service
- Fire, Other U.S. Locations - minor bug fixes related to processing incident reports retrieved from CAL FIRE
- General/UI Various minor bug fixes
Changes for v2014.1.170 - v2014.1.172
- Volcano
- Global/U.S. Overview - modified the search routines to improve the volcano name matching process when working with data retrieved from multiple online sources
- Global Overview only - several minor tweaks to the code so that the formatting is correctly applied when selecting the option to list all volcano reports at once; the "list all" option is only available when there are more than 25 reports
- General/UI
- Various minor bug fixes
Changes for v2014.1.168 - v2014.1.170
- General/UI
- Bug fix to the mobile device messaging process which wasn't correctly including a value for "Affected Area" (i.e. for Tornado Warning alerts, etc.)
- Minor tweaks to the email messaging processes
- Volcano
- Global/U.S. Overview - updated the processing of all volcano reports to fix an issue where the the volcano attribute values (elevation, latitude, longitude, etc.) were not being correctly retrieved from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism website
Changes for v2014.1.162 - v2014.1.168
- Tropical
- Bug fixes when loading Tropical Weather Outlook and Tropical Cyclone images
- Weather
- Global/U.S. Locations - various bug fixes related to the data retrieved from Weather Underground for Current Conditions and Local Forecasts; also made some minor UI changes to the Current Conditions/Local Forecast screen
Changes for v2014.1.160 - v2014.1.162
- Changes to support displaying the new tropical cyclone activity/tropical weather outlook maps that the National Hurricane Center displays on their website; this includes adding the ability to mouse-click the currently displayed map to toggle between three different outlook maps: Tropical Cyclone Activity map, 2-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook map and 5-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook map; note that this map-toggling feature only works for the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific tropical regions
- General/UI
- Bug fix that prevented the main Earth Alerts screen from displaying properly for some users when switching from taskbar mode
Changes for v2014.1.154 - v2014.1.160
- Bug fixes related to restoring data from backup files. The option located on the Settings screen (the upper-right hand side of the screen) labeled as "Restore user settings & data from backup files" should now work much more reliably
Changes for v2014.1.152 - v2014.1.154
- Bug fix with Local Statement reports being grouped with the wrong active storm
Changes for v2014.1.138 - v2014.1.140
- Fixed several bugs related to searching/adding locations under the Settings -> Locations - United States screen
- U.S. Overview: bug fixes related to processing the National Fire News report to restore some of the missing fire statisitics information
Changes for v2014.1.136 - v2014.1.138
- Changes to display more accurate location information for Weather/NWS alerts throughout the application; now uses the value indicated by "Location:" as shown in the Weather/NWS reports
- EXAMPLE: instead of showing "Durango, CO" as an alert location for an active Red Flag Warning (which is typically issued by the NWS for an entire county) now show "La Plata County, CO" instead...
Changes for v2014.1.132 - v2014.1.136
- General/UI
- Fixed several bugs related to searching/adding locations under the Settings -> Locations - United States screen
- 2014.1.134
- General/UI
- Improvements to the process for sending email messages to reduce the number of duplicate messages
Changes for v2014.1.128 - v2014.1.132
- Weather
- U.S. Locations: fixed a new bug where the correct NWS alert report wasn't displaying for locations that have more than one active alert
- General/UI
- Various minor bug fixes
Changes for v2014.1.122 - v2014.1.128
- Bug fix to restore the ability to fetch images from Weather Underground for active storms
Changes for v2014.1.116 - v2014.1.122
- Weather
- Global/U.S. Locations - fixed a bug where the Local Forecast information wasn't appearing for some users
- U.S. Locations - changed the header in all NWS weather alerts reports to show a location value as either the Weather Zone name or County name depending on which data feed the information was acquired from
- General/UI
- Fixed an issue where the incorrect NOAA Image of the Day information and image was displaying
Changes for v2014.1.112 - v2014.1.116
- General/GUI
- Minor bug fixes
- Tropical
- Bug fixes to Tropical Weather Outlook reports with missing dates
- Weather
- Bug fixes when processing the NWS Alerts Map and associated alert colors
Changes for v2014.1.100 - v2014.1.112
- Various bug fixes
- Weather U.S. Locations only: updated the processing of the National Weather Service color codes used for NWS alerts (warnings, watches, advisories and statements)
- Global/U.S. Locations: some additional improvements to processing Current Conditions data retrieved from Weather Underground
Changes for v2014.1.82 - v2014.1.100
- Fixed several bugs where the InciWeb and GeoMAC fire perimeter map images were
- either the incorrect one or not appearing at all
- General/UI Fixed a minor display issue that occurred when the Image of the Day screen was
- first loading
- U.S. Overview: various improvements made to processing volcano activity data retrieved from the USGS Volcano Hazards Program and Smithsonian Global
- Volcanism Program; updated webcam links for volcanoes that have them
- Global/U.S. Locations: additional improvements made to processing Current Conditions and Local Forecast data retrieved from Weather Underground
- U.S. Locations - bug fix to display missing 'size/acres burned' and 'percent contained' values on the CAL FIRE incident reports if that information exists
- Various bug fixes throughout the application
- Added new disclaimer to the top of the About and Donate screens: "Earth Alerts software is intended for personal, non-commercial use only.
Changes for v2014.1.70 - v2014.1.82
- U.S. Locations - a major overhaul "under the hood" with the location search and location data download processes; the changes should result in more successful matches when searching on small/rural/remote/unincorporated locations within the 50 U.S states as well as locations on U.S. island territories (American Samoa, Guam, N. Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands)
- Various bug fixes
Changes for v2014.1.70 - v2014.1.80
- U.S. Locations - a major overhaul "under the hood" with the location search and location data download processes; the changes should result in more successful matches when searching on small/rural/remote/unincorporated locations within the 50 U.S states as well as locations on U.S. island territories (American Samoa, Guam, N. Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands)
- Various bug fixes
Changes for v2014.1.40 - v2014.1.70
- Various bug fixes
Changes for 2014.1.32 - v2014.1.40
- Global and U.S. locations: update to the processing tasks for Current Conditions and Local Forecast data as a result of major changes to the Weather Underground website
Changes for v2014.1.30 - 2014.1.32
- U.S. Overview: fixed a bug that was preventing certain USGS volcano reports from being processed, including Yellowstone
Changes for v2014.1.24 - v2014.1.30
- Fixed several new bugs related to searching/adding locations under the Settings -> Locations - United States screen; this issue was caused by recent layout and content changes made to the National Weather Service websites
Changes for v2014.1.22 - v2014.1.24
- General/UI
- Fixed an issue when downloading Image of the Day information from NOAA; minor bug fixes and tweaks here and there
- Fire
- U.S. Overview: update to support recent changes on the US Forest Service active fire maps website
Changes for v2014.1.18 - v2014.1.22
- Global locations only: additional bug fixes related to processing local forecast data
- Updated internal references for InciWeb to point to the new website address; this fixes a bug which prevented the incident data feeds from downloading properly
Changes for v2014.1.14 - v2014.1.18
- Weather Underground to their local forecast data; some related bug fixes for processing the downloaded forecast data
- Global locations only: modifications to support recent formatting changes made
Changes for v2014.1.12 - v2014.1.14
- Bug fix to display the correct imagery from Weather Underground for active storms
Changes for v2013.2.52 - v2014.1.12
- Fixed an issue when downloading Image of the Day information from NOAA; squished some other minor bugs here and there.
Changes for v2013.2.50 - v2013.2.52
- Bug fix to to restore the ability to download local forecast information from Weather Underground for non-U.S. locations
Changes for v2013.2.34 - v2013.2.40
- Upgraded the source code to Microsoft Visual Studio 2013; this change does not have any significant impact on the Earth Alerts user interface or features
- Volcano Bug fixes to correct the process of downloading the weekly Smithsonian Global Volcanism reports; bug fix to restore the retrieval of Google Earth placemark links for each volcano report (both Global overview and U.S. overview)
- General/UI Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs
Changes for v2013.2.32 - v2013.2.34
- Bug fix on image handling - tropical cyclone satellite image, restore the ability current image in order to zoom in.
Changes for v2013.2.30 - v2013.2.32
- Tropical Updated imagery source to use higher resolution, larger maps for the Tropical
- Outlooks section; tweaked the UI a bit for placement of labels and links
Changes for v2013.2.28 - v2013.2.30
- Tropical Bug fixes and formatting tweeks to reports
- Fire Bug fixes and formatting tweeks to reports
Changes for v2013.2.26 - v2013.2.28
- Bug fixes and formatting tweaks to the Tropical Outlook and Tropical Discussion reports
Changes for v2013.2.24 - v2013.2.26
- Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs
Changes for v2013.1.144 - v2013.1.146
- Fixed a bug related to searching/adding "Washington, DC" under the Settings -> Locations - United States screen
Changes for v2013.1.142 - v2013.1.144
- Fire, Other
- Continue to improve and optimize the retrieval of incident data from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; fixed some bugs
- General/UI
- Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs
Changes for v2013.1.140 - v2013.1.142
- Fire, Other Continue to improve and optimize the retrieval of incident data from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; fixed some bugs
- General/UI Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs
Changes for v2013.1.138 - v2013.1.140
- Fire, Other
- Continue to improve and optimize the retrieval of incident data from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC;
- fixed some bugs
- General/UI
- Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs
Changes for v2013.1.124 - v2013.1.138
- Fire, Other
- Continue to improve and optimize the retrieval of incident data from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; fixed some bugs
- General/UI
- Some performance tweaks; fixed some bugs
- 2013.1.132
- Weather
- Improved support for emergency/non-weather related alerts issued by the National Weather Service, including the ability to have Earth Alerts send email notifications of these types of alerts
- Fire, Other
- Continue to improve and optimize the retrieval of incident data from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; fixed some bugs; please note that the InciWeb site continues to be very slow at times which occasionally affects the ability to quickly download and process some incident reports
- General/UI
- Fixed some bugs
Changes for v2013.1.122 - v2013.1.124
- Fire, Other Squished some bugs
- General/UI Squished some bugs here too
Changes for v2013.1.120 - v2013.1.122
- Volcano Global overview: fixed some minor bugs and made adjustments to improve the handling of the weekly reports issued by the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program website
Changes for v2013.1.118 - v2013.1.120
- General/UI Fixed several new bugs related to searching/adding new locations under the
- Settings -> Locations - Global and Settings -> Locations - United States screens;
- made some adjustments to the search tips text to reflect changes made to the search routines
Changes for v2013.1.96 - v2013.1.116
- Fire, Other
- Improved the process for retrieving fire map images and Google Earth KMLs from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC;
- squished a few bugs
Changes for v2013.1.96 - v2013.1.114
- Fire, Other Improved the process for retrieving fire map images and Google Earth KMLs from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; squished a few bugs
- General/UI Squished a variety of bugs; made some minor tweaks to the UI
Changes for v2013.1.96 - v2013.1.110
- Fire, Other Improved the process for retrieving fire map images and Google Earth KMLs from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; squished a few bugs
Changes for v2013.1.96 - v2013.1.108
- Fire, Other Improved the process for retrieving fire map images and Google Earth KMLs from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; squished a few bugs
- General/UI Squished a variety of bugs; made some minor tweaks to the UI
Changes for v2013.1.104 - v2013.1.106
- Fire, Other Improved the process for retrieving fire map images and Google Earth KMLs from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; squished a few bugs
- General/UI Squished a variety of bugs; made some minor tweaks to the UI
Changes for v2013.1.96 - v2013.1.104
- Fire, Other Improved the process for retrieving fire map images and Google Earth KMLs from CAL FIRE, InciWeb and GeoMAC; squished a few bugs
- General/UI Squished a variety of bugs; made some minor tweaks to the UI
Changes for v2013.1.96 - v2013.1.100
- General/UI Squished a variety of bugs; made some minor tweaks to the UI
Changes for v2013.1.94 - v2013.1.96
- Volcano Global overview: squished some bugs related to handling the weekly reports issued
- by the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; issues fixed relate to recent changes
- made to the content and layout of the Smithsonian GVP website and data feeds
- Tropical 2013 hurricane season is underway for the Eastern Pacific and North Atlantic!
- Cyclone Squished some bugs and also made some minor changes to the processing of data
- retrieved from the National Hurricane Center to skip information reports that
- aren't directly associated with specific named storms
- Fire, Other Squished some bugs; changes to support new location of the CAL FIRE incident
- data feeds, incident reports, and incident maps
- General/UI Squished bug where Earth Alerts fails to detect when the Google Earth application
- is installed under some versions of Windows
Changes for v2013.1.92 - v2013.1.94
- Fire, Other
- Added the capability to display incident fire maps from CAL FIRE when they exist
- Added integration with Google Earth to allow viewing of fire perimeters using KML placemark data provided by CAL FIRE and GeoMAC websites
- Volcano
- Partially restored integration with Google Earth to allow viewing of volcanoes using KML placemark data provided by the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program website; only works for volcanoes listed under the 'Global overview' section,
- still not working for volcanoes listed under the 'United States overview' section
Changes for v2013.1.70 - v2013.1.84
- Fire, Other
- Various minor bug fixes related to updating CAL FIRE and InciWeb reports and removing obsolete reports
- General/UI
- Various bug fixes
Changes for v2013.1.70 - v2013.1.82
- Fire, Other Various minor bug fixes related to updating CAL FIRE and InciWeb reports and removing obsolete reports
- General/UI Various bug fixes
Changes for v2013.1.70 - v2013.1.80
- Fire, Other
- Various minor bug fixes related to updating CAL FIRE and InciWeb reports and removing obsolete reports
- General/UI
- Various bug fixes
Changes for v2013.1.70 - 2013.1.72
- General/UI Various bug fixes
Changes for 2013.1.64 - v2013.1.70
- Yet even more changes: improved the handling of incident reports when their status changes and to better manage when an active incident has reports available from both CAL FIRE and InciWeb (the most recently-updated report prevails)
Changes for v2013.1.66 - v2013.1.68
- Yet even more changes: improved the handling of incident reports when their status changes and to better manage when an active incident has reports available from both CAL FIRE and InciWeb (the most recently-updated report prevails)
Changes for 2013.1.64 - v2013.1.66
- Yet even more changes: improved the handling of incident reports when their status changes and to better manage when an active incident has reports available from both CAL FIRE and InciWeb (the most recently-updated report prevails)
Changes for v2013.1.58 - 2013.1.64
- Fire, Other Yet even more changes: improved the handling of incident reports when their status changes and to better manage when an active incident has reports available from both CAL FIRE and InciWeb (the most recently-updated report prevails)
- General/UI Updates to improve formatting of text on the the "Image of the Day" screen
Changes for v2013.1.58 - 2013.1.62
- Fire, Other Yet even more changes: improved the handling of incident reports when their status changes and to better manage when an active incident has reports available from both CAL FIRE and InciWeb (the most recently-updated report prevails)
- General/UI Updates to improve formatting of text on the the "Image of the Day" screen
Changes for 2013.1.54 - v2013.1.58
- Fire, Other Additional changes and bug fixes: improved the handling of incident reports when their status changes and to automatically remove obsolete incident reports...
- General/UI Changes to automatically default to the News screen (Google News) for all alert types whenever there are currently no reports/activity to display...
Changes for v2013.1.44 - 2013.1.46
- Bug fix related to alert being set incorrectly when a new report indicates a 100% contained fire; bug caused the alerts list and alert info to show as unknown location/unknown alert
- NOTE: For those requesting better support for active fires, Earth Alerts
- currently uses information from InciWeb which typically reports fires on federal land only (e.g. national forests, etc.), not active fires occurring on state or private land. I will attempt to improve this in the future...
Changes for v2013.1.40 - v2013.1.44
- Bug fixes to properly display location specific information; fixes needed due to changes to the format of the reports issued by the National Weather Service / Storm Prediction Center
Changes for v2013.1.40 - v2013.1.42
- Bug fixes to properly display location specific information; fixes needed due to changes to the format of the reports issued by the National Weather Service/Storm Prediction Center
Changes for v2013.1.36 - v2013.1.40
- Fire, Other
- Yet another refinement to the recent enhancement for U.S. Locations: added a new user setting "report age"; find this new setting under Settings -> Retrieve -> Locations - United States -> Fire, Other; the default value for report age is
- 60 days; as with the "distance maximum" setting this new option provides some more flexibility in terms of how many incident reports for each U.S. Location are retrieved from the InciWeb service; many incidents such as large wildfires
- can be ongoing, long-term events which may exist for many months beyond the original date it started; the report age setting gives you the ability to determine the maximum number of days you wish to have Earth Alerts track active,
- ongoing incidents based on the last time the report was updated on InciWeb
Changes for v2013.1.32 - v2013.1.36
- Fire, Other Minor bug fixes to recent enhancement for U.S. Locations: fixed the incorrect
- date/time stamps indicating when the InciWeb report was last updated; other
- minor formatting changes to the report as it appears in Earth Alerts
- Earthquake All earthquake screens: small improvement to the "News" option, specifically with
- Google News...now provides a more specific default search string based on the
- currently-selected earthquake event; example: searches on the specific phrase
- "MINDANAO PHILLIPINES EARTHQUAKE" instead of generic search "EARTHQUAKE"
Changes for v2013.1.22 - v2013.1.32
- Fire, Other
- Changes for U.S. Locations only: significant enhancement with how information is retrieved and processed from the InciWeb system; changes better differentiate between types of fires (wildfires, wildland fires, prescribed fires) and other types of incidents occasionally reported on Inciweb such as floods. This enhancement also includes a new user setting: "distance maximum"; find this new setting under Settings -> Retrieve -> Locations - United States -> Fire,
- Other;the default value for distance maximum is 150 miles; this value is applied for each U.S. Location you have setup; the benefit of this enhancement is that the data retrieval process should be faster overall (the InciWeb site has always been notoriously SLOW!); the incident reports shown for each U.S Location are now more relevant since they are now based on latitude/longitude values -- this works similar to how earthquake events are tracked in Earth Alerts; the distance value is calculated between each U.S. Location and an active incident reported on InciWeb such as a wildfire
- Fire
- Changes for U.S. Overview and U.S. Locations: eliminated all UI references to "Wildland Fire" and replaced with simply "Fire"
Changes for v2013.1.16 - v2013.1.22
- Weather Added new precipitation data to the Current Conditions screen; will show either
- Snow Depth or Rainfall if available for a location
Changes for v2013.1.14 - v2013.1.16
- Tsunami
- Bug fix to show correct region/location for active Tsunami warning/watch/advisory
Changes for v2013.1.12 - v2013.1.14
- - Updates to improve formatting of text on the the "Image of the Day" screen
- - Minor bug fixes
Changes for v2012.1.180 - v2013.1.12
- Tsunami
- Changes to support new data feed format from the West Coast & Alaska Tsunami
- Warning Center;
- several minor bug fixes when processing data for tsunami reports
- General/UI
- Updates to improve formatting of text on the the "Image of the Day" screen
Changes for v2012.1.176 - v2012.1.180
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes
Changes for v2012.1.162 - v2012.1.166
- Trop. Cyclone
- Bug fix to "maximum sustained winds" conversion from Knots to MPH, used for setting the tropical cyclone strength (category) for all storms tracked by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center
- Weather
- Bug fix to display the correct Regional Radar map image for Upper Midwest U.S. locations
- General/UI
- Coding changes for the "Image of the Day" screen to support the new NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory website layout
Changes for v2012.1.160 - v2012.1.162
- Weather
- Bug fix to display the correct Regional Radar quadrant for Upper Midwest U.S. locations
Changes for v2012.1.158 - v2012.1.160
- Trop. Cyclone
- Bug fix to display correct count of active Tropical Cyclones as shown under the "Global overview" list
Changes for v2012.1.152 - v2012.1.158
- Bug fix to alert sounds feature (see Settings -> Notify - Visual & Sound) where certain sounds would not play unless at least one U.S. Location was setup in
- Earth Alerts; also changed the sound settings to play an alert sound for active tornado warning and weather warnings that exist for ANY U.S. location not just the primary (first) U.S. location
Changes for v2012.1.144 - v2012.1.152
- Changes to display a label on the Current Conditions screen to differentiate between a weather station that is active, temporarily not active (currently not reporting), or estimated values because no nearby weather station exists (ex. at a remote location such as Pitcairn Island)
- General/UI
- Bug fix to the "Active Alerts Notification Window" when an Earth Alerts program update is available and the notification is being added to the window but never appears; also fixes a screen display issue that occurs if the user manually stops the "Auto Update" operation currently underway...
- Earthquake
- Yet another bug fix related to retrieval of the Location Map image for each earthquake event (the URL values being stored in the user data file were not correct); additional tweaks designed to improve retrieval of a Shake Map image for significant earthquake events (if available on the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program website)
