Changelog

Design Refresh

• New typography: switched to Inter for a sharper, more professional feel across all pages
• Full CSS modernisation with design tokens (custom properties) for consistent colours, spacing, and typography site-wide
• Improved island cards: updated spacing, hover effects with subtle lift animations, and smooth transitions on interactive elements
• Responsive island grid: 3 columns on desktop, 2 on tablet, 1 on mobile
• Added focus states and accessibility improvements on form inputs and dropdowns
• Navigation links updated with pill-shaped hover backgrounds
• Storm cards refreshed with larger border-radius, box shadows, and hover glow

New Features

• Regional Weather Outlook call-to-action added as the 15th item in the island grid on the home page
• Weather page now includes a link back to the full site with storm tracking, satellite imagery, and forecasts
• Weather descriptions cleaned up for brevity (e.g. "light intensity shower rain" now displays as "light rain")

Improvements

• Inline styles across all pages updated to use design tokens instead of hardcoded colour values
• Weather page fully synced with home page layout, spacing, and styling
• Mobile alignment fix for chart control dropdowns on island detail pages
• Removed inline style overrides from header links for cleaner markup

New Features

• Island switcher dropdown on island pages – jump between islands without returning to the home page
• Island comparison feature – overlay a second island's weather data (wind, pressure, temperature, rainfall) on the charts for side-by-side analysis
• Weather history data available as a JSON endpoint for chart rendering

SEO & Meta Tags

• Dynamic month/year added to page titles, headings, meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, Twitter cards, and structured data across all pages
• Page-specific Open Graph and Twitter Card tags on every page (previously all pointed to the home page)
• Canonical tags added to all pages
• JSON-LD structured data (WebSite, WebPage, Place) added to every page
• Dynamic sitemap that auto-generates island URLs from the database with fresh timestamps
• Weather section added to sitemap
• Interactive Map page: full social sharing tags added (previously missing)
• Fixed double-encoded ampersands in meta tags

Code Quality

• Consolidated duplicated utility functions (compass bearings, distance calculations, URL slugs, timezone conversion) into a single shared module
• Consolidated favicon and app icon markup into a single shared include used by all pages
• Significant reduction in code duplication across the site

Initial Release

• Live weather conditions for 14 Eastern Caribbean islands updated hourly
• Active storm tracking with NHC forecast data, wind radii, and closest point of approach (CPA) per island
• Interactive hurricane map with forecast tracks and wind radius visualisation
• Weather history charts (wind speed, pressure, temperature, rainfall) with multiple time ranges
• Eastern Caribbean weather outlook with GOES-19 satellite imagery, NHC tropical weather discussion, and offshore forecasts
• Historical storm archive browsable by year
• Email alert subscriptions for storm proximity warnings
• Imperial/metric unit toggle persisted across visits
• Favourite islands feature (pin up to 3 islands to the top)
• Mobile-responsive dark theme design