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       {"@type":"Question","name":"Does SunScope show air quality and pollen forecasts?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes. Three air environment columns sit after Cloud cover in the table: Visibility (horizontal visibility in km), AQI (European Air Quality Index combining PM2.5, PM10, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulphur dioxide), and Pollen (grains per cubic metre with a type picker for grass, birch, alder, mugwort, olive, ragweed, or total). All three are sourced from Copernicus CAMS via Open-Meteo. Toggle them using the column buttons above the table."}},
       {"@type":"Question","name":"What does the weather icon on each day tab mean?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Each day tab shows a weather icon for dominant daytime sky conditions - a sun disc for clear days, cloud variants for cloudy days, or a precipitation icon for rainy or snowy days. Below the icon are the day high and low SunSoak felt temperatures in warm and cool colours. The icon is derived from actual solar elevation and cloud data, not a fixed set of generic symbols."}},
       {"@type":"Question","name":"What are the weather event banners above the forecast table?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"When notable conditions are forecast - ground frost, strong wind warning, fog, or a heat event - a coloured banner appears above the table. Tapping or clicking the event icon opens a popup with more detail about what the condition means and what to watch out for. Multiple events can appear at once."}},
-      {"@type":"Question","name":"Why does the sky display show the wrong time of day?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The sky scope shows current conditions only - the actual time right now, not the hour you are browsing in the table. The sun position, sky colour, and glow intensity are calculated from real solar elevation and radiation data for the current moment. If you are looking at a future hour in the forecast table, the sky display stays locked to now by design."}},
+      {"@type":"Question","name":"Can I see how the sky and weather will look later today?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes. By default the sky scope shows the current moment, with sun position, sky colour, glow, cloud, rain, snow and haze all calculated from real forecast data. You can also travel through the day: press the Day cycle play button to run a 24-hour time-lapse that animates the sky and weather through the next day in about a minute and a half, or drag the thumb along the timeline bar beneath the scope to scrub to any instant. The timeline shows the day's changing sky colours with sunrise and sunset markers at their real times."}},
       {"@type":"Question","name":"How far ahead does the forecast go?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The free tier shows 3 days of hourly data. SunScope Extra unlocks 14 days. The forecast auto-refreshes every 5 minutes while the page is open so the current hour always reflects the latest data from Open-Meteo. No manual reload needed."}},
       {"@type":"Question","name":"How accurate is SunScope?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"SunScope uses Open-Meteo data from ECMWF and national meteorological services - the same models used by professional forecasters. The UTCI calculation follows the peer-reviewed Bröde 2012 polynomial exactly. Derived columns such as vehicle temperature, indoor temperature, and concrete surface are physics-based estimates that vary based on local factors like building construction, shading, and surface colour. Treat them as well-informed estimates rather than precise measurements."}},
       {"@type":"Question","name":"Is SunScope free?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The core forecast is free for any location worldwide with no account required. Free includes Basic, Home, Vehicle, the Places variants Urban, Park/Picnic, Forest/Woodland, Beach, Events, and Airport/Travel, and the free specialist variants Dog Walking, Running, Cycling (Activities) and Farming (Work). SunScope Extra at 2 pounds per month unlocks 14-day forecasts, the specialist Places variant Festival, specialist Activities variants (Hiking, Fishing, Sailing, Winter Sports, Photography, Naturist), the Work variants (Construction, Market Trading, Window Cleaning, Office, Driver/Trucker), the Temps comparison profile, Show All, and Custom column control."}},
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-    <summary class="faq-q">Why does the sky display show the wrong time of day?</summary>
+    <summary class="faq-q">Can I see how the sky and weather will look later today?</summary>
-    <p class="faq-a">The sky scope always shows current conditions - it reflects the actual time right now, not the hour you are browsing in the table. The sun position, sky colour, and glow intensity are all calculated from the real solar elevation and radiation data for the current moment.<br><br>If you are looking at a future or past hour in the forecast table, the sky display does not follow - it stays locked to now by design. It is a live view of the current sky, not a preview of a future one.</p>
+    <p class="faq-a">Yes. By default the sky scope shows the current moment - the sun position, sky colour, glow intensity, cloud, rain, snow, and haze are all calculated from real forecast data for right now. But you can also travel through the day.<br><br>Press the <strong>Day cycle</strong> play button (▶) on the scope to run a 24-hour time-lapse: SunScope animates the sky and weather smoothly through the next day in about a minute and a half, with a live clock showing the simulated time. Or drag the thumb along the <strong>timeline bar</strong> beneath the scope to scrub to any instant - the bar shows the day's changing sky colours with sunrise (↑) and sunset (↓) markers at their real times. Press play again, or release, to return to now.</p>
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   <h2>The sky scope</h2>
   <p>
-    The large circular visualisation at the top of the page shows the current sky conditions. The sky
+    The large circular visualisation at the top of the page shows the sky conditions. The sky colour
-    colour smoothly interpolates through a full set of elevation-keyed gradients — from deep pre-dawn
+    smoothly interpolates through a full set of elevation-keyed gradients — from deep pre-dawn navy
-    navy through golden sunrise, bright midday blue, warm sunset amber, and back to night — with a sun
+    through golden sunrise, bright midday blue, warm sunset amber, and back to night — with a sun disc
-    disc whose glow radius and intensity scale with the actual shortwave radiation at that moment. It
+    whose glow radius and intensity scale with the shortwave radiation at that moment. It's a live
-    shows the real current time, not the hour you're browsing in the table, and refreshes automatically
+    weather simulation, not just a colour wheel: cloud, rain, snow, and haze are all rendered from the
-    alongside the forecast.
+    forecast, so the scope actually looks overcast, wet, or misty when the weather is. By default it
+    tracks the real current time and refreshes automatically alongside the forecast.
+  </p>
+
+  <h2>Day-cycle time-lapse</h2>
+  <p>
+    Press the <strong>Day cycle</strong> play button (▶) on the scope to run a 24-hour time-lapse.
+    SunScope drives the scope smoothly through the next 24 hours — roughly 15 simulated minutes per
+    real second, so a full day plays out in about a minute and a half — animating the sky gradients,
+    the sun's rise and fall, and the evolving weather as cloud rolls in, rain starts, or fog lifts. A
+    live clock label shows the simulated time as it plays; press again to stop and snap back to now.
+  </p>
+
+  <h2>The draggable timeline</h2>
+  <p>
+    Below the scope sits a 24-hour <strong>timeline bar</strong>. Its background is a gradient built
+    from the actual per-hour sky colours across the coming day, so the bar itself previews how the sky
+    will shift from dawn to dusk. <strong>Sunrise (↑)</strong> and <strong>sunset (↓)</strong> markers
+    sit at their real times on the bar, with clock ticks at the quarter points. Grab the thumb and
+    scrub to any instant to jump the scope — and the "why it feels like this" breakdown — to that
+    moment, with everything interpolated smoothly between the hourly rows rather than snapping.
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   <h2>Day strip weather and temperatures</h2>