- The curated column sets — Basic, Home, Vehicle, Temps, Show All and Custom — plus the Places, - Activities and Work dropdowns, each tailored to a specific situation. + The curated column sets — Basic, Home, Vehicle, Pets, Temps, Show All and Custom — plus the + Places, Activities and Work dropdowns, each tailored to a specific situation.
- The sky scope, day-strip weather icons, weather-event banners and popups, and the "What's - Coming" cosmic events almanac. + The sky scope, day-strip weather icons, weather-event banners and popups, the "Today at a + Glance" summary with its seasonal-average comparison, and the "What's Coming" cosmic events + almanac.
Each row in the table is one hour of the day, with the time shown in the first column. The most important column is SunSoak - SunScope's felt-temperature index combining air temperature, humidity, wind, solar radiation, rain, and your environment into a single honest number.
Colour coding tells you how comfortable each hour will be at a glance: blue shades mean cold, green means comfortable, yellow and orange mean warm or hot, and red means dangerous heat stress. Use the SunSoak column dropdown to set your Solar Model - Grass/Open Field, Forest, Alpine, Beach, River, Open Water, or Desert - and the values will adjust accordingly. Other columns show vehicle cabin temperature, indoor building temperature, UV index, burn time, concrete surface temperature, soil data, air quality, and pollen. Switch between profiles using the buttons and dropdowns above the table - Basic, Home, Vehicle, then the Places, Activities, and Work dropdowns for location, activity, and occupation-specific views. Hover any column header for a plain-language description of what it shows.
Each row in the table is one hour of the day, with the time shown in the first column. The most important column is SunSoak - SunScope's felt-temperature index combining air temperature, humidity, wind, solar radiation, rain, and your environment into a single honest number.
Colour coding tells you how comfortable each hour will be at a glance: blue shades mean cold, green means comfortable, yellow and orange mean warm or hot, and red means dangerous heat stress. Use the SunSoak column dropdown to set your Solar Model - Grass/Open Field, Forest, Alpine, Beach, River, Open Water, or Desert - and the values will adjust accordingly. Other columns show vehicle cabin temperature, indoor building temperature, pet fur and paw temperature, UV index, burn time, concrete surface temperature, soil data, air quality, and pollen. Switch between profiles using the popup picker above the table - Basic, Home, Vehicle, Pets, then the Places, Activities, and Work tabs for location, activity, and occupation-specific views. Hover any column header for a plain-language description of what it shows.
Each profile is a curated set of columns relevant to a different activity or situation.
Basic shows the core weather picture: felt temperature, sky conditions, wind, and precipitation.
Home adds indoor building temperature for your selected building type, humidity, and dew point.
Vehicle adds car or motorhome cabin temperature, soil moisture for pitch assessment, and visibility.
The Places dropdown offers Urban, Park/Picnic, Forest/Woodland, Beach, Events, and Airport/Travel (all free), plus Festival (Extra). The Activities dropdown includes Dog Walking, Running, and Cycling (free), plus Hiking, Fishing, Sailing, Winter Sports, Photography, and Naturist (Extra). The Work dropdown covers outdoor occupations: Farming (free), plus Construction, Market Trading, Window Cleaning, Office, and Driver/Trucker (Extra).
SunScope Extra also unlocks Temps (a side-by-side temperature comparison), Show All, and Custom, which lets you build a fully custom column layout.
Each profile is a curated set of columns relevant to a different activity or situation.
Basic shows the core weather picture: felt temperature, sky conditions, wind, and precipitation.
Home adds indoor building temperature for your selected building type, humidity, and dew point.
Vehicle adds car, truck, or motorhome cabin temperature (with a road-speed selector), soil moisture for pitch assessment, and visibility.
Pets adds fur surface temperature (set your pet's fur colour), paw/pavement burn-risk temperature, and pet-specific shade and home alert thresholds.
The Places dropdown offers Urban, Park/Picnic, Forest/Woodland, Beach, Events, and Airport/Travel (all free), plus Festival (Extra). The Activities dropdown includes Dog Walking, Running, and Cycling (free), plus Hiking, Fishing, Sailing, Winter Sports, Photography, and Naturist (Extra). The Work dropdown covers outdoor occupations: Farming (free), plus Construction, Market Trading, Window Cleaning, Office, and Driver/Trucker (Extra).
SunScope Extra also unlocks Temps (a side-by-side temperature comparison), Show All, and Custom, which lets you build a fully custom column layout. The profile and settings picker itself lives in a popup off the nav bar with Common/Places/Activities/Work tabs and inline config selectors.
When notable weather conditions are forecast - such as a ground frost, strong wind warning, fog, or a heat event - a coloured banner with a brief alert 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 if conditions warrant it.
Today at a Glance is a summary panel above the table that pulls together the 4-5 numbers that matter most for the day and your active profile - peak heat window, rain risk, wind, UV, and similar - so you don't have to scan the full hourly table to get the headline picture. Content adapts to what you're doing: the Farming profile adds sow and harvest advice from a seasonal crop calendar, for example.
Every profile also shows a vs seasonal average comparison: the day's forecast high and 24-hour mean set against the 1991-2020 climate normal for that date and location, calculated from Open-Meteo's historical archive. A gap of 5 degrees or more against the normal high is flagged - an honest anomaly check on top of the raw forecast numbers.
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.
Press the Day cycle 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 timeline bar 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.
On a sunny day shade can make a very significant difference - often 8 to 12 degrees in UTCI terms - because it removes the direct solar radiation load entirely. However shade does not reduce the air temperature or humidity, so on very humid days you will still feel uncomfortably warm even in full shade.
SunScope shows the UTCI value for open sun exposure. If you are planning to stay in shade, the felt temperature you actually experience will be noticeably lower than the figure shown.
The free Pets profile is built for checking outdoor conditions for a cat or dog. Fur Temp estimates coat surface temperature in direct sun, calibrated for a thin/short coat rather than a heavily-insulated breed - set your pet's fur colour (Black/Dark, Brown/Tabby, Golden/Tan, White/Pale) since darker coats absorb more solar heat and run hotter.
Paw Temp estimates pavement contact temperature colour-coded by burn risk: green below 40 degrees (safe), amber 40-52 degrees (discomfort or possible burn on prolonged contact), red above 52 degrees (can burn within 60 seconds) - the same 7-second hand test applies as for concrete surface temperature. Pet Shade and Pet Home reuse the shade and indoor models but with lower, pet-specific alert thresholds, since small pets have far less capacity to dump heat than a person.
Yes, significantly. Open windows allow convective airflow to flush hot cabin air out continuously, reducing heat build-up by roughly 60-80% compared to a sealed vehicle. SunScope Vehicle column has a Ventilation toggle that switches the physics model to a ventilated state, showing the estimated cabin temperature with windows open alongside the sealed figure so you can compare both directly.
+Yes, significantly. Open windows allow convective airflow to flush hot cabin air out continuously, reducing heat build-up by roughly 60-80% compared to a sealed vehicle. SunScope Vehicle column has a Ventilation toggle that switches the physics model to a ventilated state, showing the estimated cabin temperature with windows open alongside the sealed figure so you can compare both directly. A road speed selector (Static, Urban 20 mph, A-road 50 mph, Motorway 70 mph) sits alongside it — a moving vehicle sheds heat far faster than one parked and sealed, especially with windows open.
Exposed concrete and tarmac can be 15-25 degrees hotter than the surrounding air on a sunny day. Unlike grass they have no evaporative cooling, and their dark colour means they absorb a large fraction of incoming solar radiation. They also radiate that heat back upward, making urban areas feel significantly warmer than open countryside - known as the urban heat island effect.
The rule of thumb: if you cannot hold your hand on the surface for 7 seconds it is too hot for dog paw pads. SunScope Concrete surface column estimates pavement temperature using an energy-balance model driven by the real solar radiation forecast.
Exposed concrete and tarmac can be 15-25 degrees hotter than the surrounding air on a sunny day. Unlike grass they have no evaporative cooling, and their dark colour means they absorb a large fraction of incoming solar radiation. They also radiate that heat back upward, making urban areas feel significantly warmer than open countryside - known as the urban heat island effect.
The rule of thumb: if you cannot hold your hand on the surface for 7 seconds it is too hot for dog paw pads. SunScope Concrete surface column estimates pavement temperature using an energy-balance model driven by the real solar radiation forecast. The Pets profile shows the same estimate as a dedicated Paw Temp column, colour-coded green/amber/red by burn risk (below 40°C, 40-52°C, above 52°C), alongside a Fur Temp column for direct-sun coat heating.
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, the Activities variants Dog Walking, Running, and Cycling, and the Farming view in the Work dropdown.
SunScope Extra (2 pounds per month) unlocks 14-day forecasts, the specialist Places variant Festival, the specialist Activities variants Hiking, Fishing, Sailing, Winter Sports, Photography, and Naturist, the Work variants Construction, Market Trading, Window Cleaning, Office, and Driver/Trucker, the Temps comparison profile, Show All, and Custom column control where you choose exactly which columns appear and in what order.
The core forecast is free for any location worldwide with no account required. Free includes Basic, Home, Vehicle, Pets, the Places variants Urban, Park/Picnic, Forest/Woodland, Beach, Events, and Airport/Travel, the Activities variants Dog Walking, Running, and Cycling, and the Farming view in the Work dropdown.
SunScope Extra (2 pounds per month) unlocks 14-day forecasts, the specialist Places variant Festival, the specialist Activities variants Hiking, Fishing, Sailing, Winter Sports, Photography, and Naturist, the Work variants Construction, Market Trading, Window Cleaning, Office, and Driver/Trucker, the Temps comparison profile, Show All, and Custom column control where you choose exactly which columns appear and in what order.
Yes - SunScope works for any location worldwide. Search for any city, town, or village using the search bar. The indoor temperature model offers seven building types - brick, modern insulated, Victorian terrace, stone cottage, timber frame, top-floor flat, and conservatory - so you can pick the one that best matches your building wherever you are. All other columns (UTCI, vehicle, UV, soil, concrete) are fully location-agnostic.
+Yes - SunScope works for any location worldwide. Search for any city, town, or village using the search bar. The indoor temperature model offers eight building types - brick, modern insulated, Victorian terrace, stone cottage, timber frame, top-floor flat, conservatory, and office block - so you can pick the one that best matches your building wherever you are. All other columns (UTCI, vehicle, UV, soil, concrete) are fully location-agnostic.
+ The profile and settings picker lives in a popup opened from the nav bar, organised into + Common, Places, Activities, and + Work tabs. Alongside the profile buttons it holds the relevant config selectors + for whatever you've picked — Solar Model, Vehicle type and road speed, Building type, Fur colour, + Fitzpatrick skin type for burn time, and Pollen type — all in one place rather than spread across + the column bar. The day-tab date strip also adapts to the active profile, showing vehicle, indoor, + or pet-relevant highs and lows where appropriate. +
+ ++ A summary panel above the table pulls together the 4–5 numbers that matter most for the day and + your active profile — peak heat window, rain risk, wind, UV, and similar — so you don't have to + scan the full hourly table to get the headline picture. Content adapts to what you're actually + doing: the Farming profile adds sow and harvest advice from a seasonal crop calendar, for example. + Every profile also gets a vs seasonal average comparison, showing how the day's + high and 24-hour mean stack up against the 1991–2020 climate normal for that date and location — + an honest anomaly check on top of the raw forecast numbers. +
+When notable conditions are forecast — a frost, strong winds, fog, or a heat event — a banner appears diff --git a/profiles.html b/profiles.html index a411ab3..ee10738 100644 --- a/profiles.html +++ b/profiles.html @@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
For managing indoor comfort without air conditioning. The indoor temperature column is central: select your building type from the dropdown (UK brick, modern insulated, - Victorian terrace, stone cottage, timber frame, top-floor flat, or conservatory) and the physics - model adjusts for that building's insulation, retained warmth, thermal mass, and glazing. Tick + Victorian terrace, stone cottage, timber frame, top-floor flat, conservatory, or office block) + and the physics model adjusts for that building's insulation, retained warmth, thermal mass, and + glazing. Tick Managed to switch to the heatwave-advice model — curtains closed by day to block solar gain, windows opened whenever outdoor air is cooler than inside. Supporting columns include air temperature, relative humidity and dew point @@ -121,9 +122,12 @@ Covers the parked and travelling vehicle experience — especially useful for anyone with children or pets, motorhome travellers, and caravan owners. The headline column is vehicle interior temperature: a physics-based estimate of how hot the cabin gets - when parked and sealed, adjusted for your chosen vehicle type (car, MPV, SUV, motorhome, or - caravan). Wind speed matters for high-sided vehicles and caravans; - cloud cover and air temperature give context, + when parked and sealed, adjusted for your chosen vehicle type (car, MPV, SUV, truck/HGV cab, + motorhome, or caravan). A road speed selector (static, urban 20 mph, A-road + 50 mph, or motorway 70 mph) sits alongside the ventilation toggle — forced airflow at speed + scrubs heat off the bodywork and, with windows open, flushes the cabin toward outside air much + faster than sitting still. Wind speed matters for high-sided vehicles and + caravans; cloud cover and air temperature give context, precipitation covers driving conditions, visibility flags fog, and SunSoak tells you what it'll feel like when you step outside. Soil moisture is included for motorhome and caravan users — values above 40% @@ -131,6 +135,22 @@
+🐾 Pets
++ Built for anyone checking outdoor conditions for a cat or dog. The headline column is + Fur Temp — an estimated fur surface temperature in direct sun, calibrated for a + thin/short coat rather than a heavily-insulated breed, using a fur colour + selector (Black/Dark, Brown/Tabby, Golden/Tan, White/Pale) since darker coats absorb more solar + heat. Paw Temp estimates ground/pavement contact temperature with burn-risk + colour coding — green below 40 °C, amber 40–52 °C, red above 52 °C — the same "7-second hand + test" rule of thumb applies. Pet Shade and Pet Home reuse the + shade and indoor models but with lower, pet-specific alert thresholds, since small pets have far + less capacity to dump heat than a person. Supporting columns include air temperature, wind speed, + cloud cover, precipitation, and SunSoak. Pets is a free core profile. +
+- You can select your vehicle type (car, MPV, SUV, motorhome, or caravan), each with its own albedo, - glazing area, and insulation. A Windows open toggle switches to a ventilated model where - convective loss is roughly five times higher, dramatically reducing cabin heat build-up. Wind speed - has almost no effect on a sealed vehicle and is only factored in when ventilation is enabled. For - cars, the figure represents the cabin after roughly 45–60 minutes of parking; motorhomes and caravans - are treated as insulated occupied living spaces, so the estimate stays closer to the real - living-space temperature on cool or moderate sunny days. Values above 35 °C are shown in amber - (dangerous for children and pets); above 45 °C in red (potentially fatal within minutes). + You can select your vehicle type (car, MPV, SUV, truck/HGV cab, motorhome, or caravan), each with + its own albedo, glazing area, and insulation. A Windows open toggle switches to a + ventilated model where convective loss is roughly five times higher, dramatically reducing cabin + heat build-up. For cars, the figure represents the cabin after roughly 45–60 minutes of parking; + motorhomes and caravans are treated as insulated occupied living spaces, so the estimate stays + closer to the real living-space temperature on cool or moderate sunny days. Values above 35 °C are + shown in amber (dangerous for children and pets); above 45 °C in red (potentially fatal within + minutes). +
++ A road speed selector — Static, Urban (20 mph), A-road (50 mph), or Motorway + (70 mph) — sits alongside the ventilation toggle. Static reproduces the original stationary model; + higher speeds add forced airflow that scrubs heat off the bodywork, and when combined with windows + open, flush the cabin toward outside air much faster than a parked vehicle. Wind speed itself has + almost no effect on a sealed, stationary vehicle and is only meaningfully factored in through + ventilation or road speed.
The model lags toward a realistic hourly target rather than repeatedly adding solar heat, so indoor @@ -142,6 +152,19 @@ values above 30 °C are shown in amber, above 40 °C in red.
++ The Pets profile runs two further physics estimates alongside the shade and + indoor models. Fur Temp estimates the surface temperature of a cat or small dog's + coat sitting in direct sun, calibrated for a thin/short coat rather than a heavily-insulated breed. + A fur colour selector (Black/Dark, Brown/Tabby, Golden/Tan, White/Pale) sets the + coat's albedo — darker coats absorb more solar radiation and run hotter, the same principle as + Shade Air but applied to fur rather than skin. Paw Temp reuses the concrete + surface energy-balance model above to estimate ground contact temperature, colour-coded by burn + risk instead of the general amber/red thresholds: green below 40 °C, amber 40–52 °C, red above + 52 °C. +
+These columns appear together in the Temps profile. For what every column means, see the column reference.