The Week Ahead - Best Times Out
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import {
calcIndoorTempPass, calcManagedIndoorTempPass, calcShadeAirTemp, calcShadeFeltTemp,
calcFurSurfaceTempPass,
} from './physics.js';
import { windCompass8, uvSplit, cloudCategory, precipPenalty, sunburnMinutes, burnLabel, FUR_COLORS } from './utils.js';
import { windCompass8, uvSplit, cloudCategory, precipPenalty, sunburnMinutes, burnLabel, FUR_COLORS, UTCI_BANDS } from './utils.js';
import { UTCI_ENVIRONMENTS, CROP_CALENDAR, deriveProfileMain } from './config.js';
export function buildHourlyRows({ forecast, airQuality, location, vehicleType, vehicleVent, vehicleSpeed, buildingType, furColor, utciEnv }) {
@@ -959,13 +959,20 @@ function bestRun(arr, pred) {
}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// computeBestDay(weekDays, profile, variant, nowLocalISO) - the day with the
// longest unbroken run of pleasant outdoor hours, for "The Week Ahead".
// computeBestDay(weekDays, nowLocalISO) - every day in the
// next week with a decent unbroken run of pleasant outdoor hours, for
// "The Week Ahead".
//
// The app already works out comfort windows for the selected day, but
// comparing days meant tapping through all fourteen tabs. This answers the
// question the day tabs make you do by hand.
//
// Naming a single winner was too thin to plan around: knowing Saturday is
// the best day says nothing about whether Sunday is also fine, or whether
// the whole week is a washout. So it lists the days that qualify, in date
// order, each with a 0-100 score so they can be compared at a glance
// without reordering them out of the order you plan in.
//
// Deliberately NOT part of computeGlanceSummary: "At a glance" describes the
// one selected day, and a week-scoped line reads as a category error inside
// it. It renders in its own panel below the rail instead.
@@ -980,16 +987,79 @@ function bestRun(arr, pred) {
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
const PICK_MIN_HOURS = 3; // shorter than this isn't worth naming a day for
const IDEAL_UTCI = 20; // centre of the "no thermal stress" band
const PICK_MAX_DAYS = 4; // beyond this the shortlist stops being a shortlist
function comfortableHour(r) {
return r.elev > 0 // daylight
&& r.utciAdj != null && r.utciAdj >= 9 && r.utciAdj <= 28 // no thermal stress
&& (r.precipProb ?? 0) < 50 // unlikely to rain on you
&& (r.gust ?? r.va ?? 0) * 2.237 < 32; // below near-gale
// ── The four bands ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// Each is [ideal, limit]: at the ideal end an hour scores full marks on that
// measure, at the limit it scores zero, and past the limit the hour is not a
// day-out hour at all. That split is what lets the panel say "Thursday is
// fine, Saturday is better" instead of only ever answering yes or no.
//
// SunSoak is the exception: rather than one ideal point it has a flat top
// spanning the Comfortable and Warm thermal-stress bands - anywhere in there
// is a good day out and splitting hairs between 20 and 25 would be false
// precision - then falls 100% to 0% across the Cool band below and the
// Caution band above. Past those it isn't a day-out hour at all.
//
// Read off UTCI_BANDS rather than written as numbers, so the panel and the
// table's colour bands can never drift apart: today that is a 19-27 plateau
// ramping out to 15 and 32.
const bandMax = (label) => UTCI_BANDS.find(b => b.label === label).max;
const SUNSOAK = {
min: bandMax('Chilly'), // bottom of Cool - score 0
flatLo: bandMax('Cool'), // bottom of Comfortable - score 1
flatHi: bandMax('Warm'), // top of Warm - score 1
max: bandMax('Caution'), // top of Caution - score 0
};
const BAND_GUST = { ideal: 15, limit: 25 }; // mph
const BAND_RAIN = { ideal: 0, limit: 25 }; // % chance
const BAND_SOIL = { ideal: 0.10, limit: 0.25 }; // m3/m3 - dry ground to soggy
// 1 at the ideal end, 0 at the limit, clamped. Direction is taken from the
// two numbers, so it reads the same whether lower or higher is better.
function bandScore(v, { ideal, limit }) {
if (v == null) return null; // unknown - caller decides
const f = (limit - v) / (limit - ideal);
return Math.max(0, Math.min(1, f));
}
export function computeBestDay(weekDays, profile, variant, nowLocalISO) {
function sunsoakScore(v) {
if (v == null) return null;
if (v >= SUNSOAK.flatLo && v <= SUNSOAK.flatHi) return 1;
const f = v < SUNSOAK.flatLo
? (v - SUNSOAK.min) / (SUNSOAK.flatLo - SUNSOAK.min)
: (SUNSOAK.max - v) / (SUNSOAK.max - SUNSOAK.flatHi);
return Math.max(0, Math.min(1, f));
}
function comfortableHour(r) {
if (!(r.elev > 0)) return false; // daylight only
if (r.utciAdj == null) return false;
if (r.utciAdj < SUNSOAK.min || r.utciAdj > SUNSOAK.max) return false;
if ((r.precipProb ?? 0) > BAND_RAIN.limit) return false;
if ((r.gust ?? r.va ?? 0) * 2.237 > BAND_GUST.limit) return false;
// Soil comes from a separate feed and is null wherever that fetch fails or
// the model has no coverage - treat missing as passing, or a soil outage
// would silently empty the panel everywhere. Only the wet end excludes: dust
// -dry ground is a poor day out for the garden, not for the person on it.
if (r.soilM != null && r.soilM > BAND_SOIL.limit) return false;
return true;
}
// How good an hour is WITHIN the bands, 0-1. Weighted by how much each
// measure actually decides whether the day was worth going out for.
function hourQuality(r) {
const parts = [
[sunsoakScore(r.utciAdj), 0.40],
[bandScore(r.precipProb ?? 0, BAND_RAIN), 0.25],
[bandScore((r.gust ?? r.va ?? 0) * 2.237, BAND_GUST), 0.20],
[bandScore(r.soilM, BAND_SOIL), 0.15],
].filter(([v]) => v != null);
const wsum = parts.reduce((s, [, w]) => s + w, 0);
return wsum > 0 ? parts.reduce((s, [v, w]) => s + v * w, 0) / wsum : 0;
}
export function computeBestDay(weekDays, nowLocalISO) {
if (!weekDays || weekDays.length === 0) return [];
const candidates = [];
@@ -1012,59 +1082,93 @@ export function computeBestDay(weekDays, profile, variant, nowLocalISO) {
}
if (!dayBest || dayBest.len < PICK_MIN_HOURS) continue;
// How far the run sits from an ideal ~20 °C, averaged. Length alone can't
// separate days: in a temperate summer week half of them run comfortable
// from dawn to dusk, and picking arbitrarily among those is a coin toss.
const run = rows.slice(dayBest.start, dayBest.end + 1);
const miss = run.reduce((s, r) => s + Math.abs(r.utciAdj - IDEAL_UTCI), 0) / run.length;
// Average quality across the run. Length alone can't separate days: in a
// temperate summer week half of them qualify dawn to dusk, and picking
// arbitrarily among those is a coin toss.
const run = rows.slice(dayBest.start, dayBest.end + 1);
const quality = run.reduce((s, r) => s + hourQuality(r), 0) / run.length;
candidates.push({
len: dayBest.len, miss, key: day.key,
len: dayBest.len, quality, key: day.key,
from: rows[dayBest.start], to: rows[dayBest.end],
daylight: rows.filter(r => r.elev > 0).length,
});
}
if (candidates.length === 0) return [];
// Nothing qualifying is itself worth saying - an empty panel reads as a bug,
// and "don't bother this week" is a real answer to the question being asked.
if (candidates.length === 0) {
return [{
icon: '🌧️',
label: 'Next 7 days',
value: 'no settled outdoor windows',
alert: false,
}];
}
// Longest run wins, but anything within an hour of the longest counts as a
// tie and is settled on which day is actually the most pleasant.
const maxLen = Math.max(...candidates.map(c => c.len));
const best = candidates
.filter(c => c.len >= maxLen - 1)
.sort((a, b) => a.miss - b.miss)[0];
// Score each day out of 100 against an ideal day out rather than against
// the rest of the week: a middling week should read as middling, not have
// its least-bad day flattered up to full marks.
//
// how much of the daylight is usable (50%)
// where in the bands those hours actually sit (50%)
//
// Even between the two: a long window of merely tolerable hours and a short
// window of perfect ones are both worth knowing about, and letting either
// half dominate hides one of them.
for (const c of candidates) {
const span = c.daylight > 0 ? Math.min(c.len / c.daylight, 1) : 0;
c.score = Math.round(100 * (0.5 * span + 0.5 * c.quality));
}
// Only the top few are kept: past four rows the panel stops being a
// shortlist and turns back into the day tabs.
const shown = [...candidates]
.sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score)
.slice(0, PICK_MAX_DAYS)
.sort((a, b) => (a.key < b.key ? -1 : 1));
const hh = (iso) => {
const h = parseInt(iso.slice(11, 13), 10);
return `${h % 12 || 12}${h < 12 ? 'am' : 'pm'}`;
};
// Dates are keyed 'YYYY-MM-DD' in local wall-clock terms, so read them back
// as UTC to stop the browser's own zone shifting the weekday.
const dayName = new Date(`${best.key}T00:00:00Z`)
.toLocaleDateString('en-GB', { weekday: 'short', day: 'numeric', timeZone: 'UTC' });
// The panel title already says "The Week Ahead", so the row just names what
// is being judged rather than repeating the timeframe.
const label = profile === 'outdoors' && variant
? `Best for ${deriveProfileMain(profile, variant).mainLabel}`
: 'Best day out';
return shown.map(c => {
// Dates are keyed 'YYYY-MM-DD' in local wall-clock terms, so read them back
// as UTC to stop the browser's own zone shifting the weekday.
const dayName = new Date(`${c.key}T00:00:00Z`)
.toLocaleDateString('en-GB', { weekday: 'short', day: 'numeric', timeZone: 'UTC' });
// The end row is the last comfortable hour, so the window runs to the end
// of it - 9am-12pm means 9:00 up to 12:59.
const endIso = `${best.to.iso.slice(0, 11)}${String((parseInt(best.to.iso.slice(11, 13), 10) + 1) % 24).padStart(2, '0')}:00`;
// The end row is the last comfortable hour, so the window runs to the end
// of it - 9am-12pm means 9:00 up to 12:59.
const endIso = `${c.to.iso.slice(0, 11)}${String((parseInt(c.to.iso.slice(11, 13), 10) + 1) % 24).padStart(2, '0')}:00`;
// A run spanning nearly all the daylight is better said than shown: printing
// "6am - 9pm" makes the reader parse a time range to learn "all day".
const window = best.daylight > 0 && best.len >= best.daylight - 1
? 'comfortable all day'
: `${hh(best.from.iso)} ${hh(endIso)}`;
// A run spanning nearly all the daylight is better said than shown: printing
// "6am - 9pm" makes the reader parse a time range to learn "all day".
const window = c.daylight > 0 && c.len >= c.daylight - 1
? 'comfortable all day'
: `${hh(c.from.iso)} ${hh(endIso)}`;
return [{
icon: '📅',
label,
value: `${dayName} · ${window}`,
alert: false,
grp: 'felt',
}];
return {
icon: '📅',
label: dayName,
value: window,
// Rows stay in date order - the order you plan in - so the ranking is
// carried by the score bar instead of by position.
score: c.score,
alert: false,
// No grp: the group tints categorise the glance rail's mixed subjects,
// but here every row is the same kind of thing, so a colour would be
// decoration. Plain rows with hairline dividers instead.
};
});
}
// Header line for the panel: names what is being judged when a variant makes
// that non-obvious, otherwise the plain framing.
export function bestDaysLabel(profile, variant) {
return profile === 'outdoors' && variant
? `Best times for ${deriveProfileMain(profile, variant).mainLabel}`
: 'Best times out';
}
export function computeCropAdvice(weekDays, lat) {