Weather Hub

Weather surfaces the following signal types. Each has an example copy line, an action button label, and a destination surface. Notification preferences (set in Onboarding Setup screen 4 + the Gardener Menu) determine which of these also fire as push/SMS — same signals, two surfaces.

Items NOT in Weather

• Marketing announcements — Weather is for the Gardener's own garden. Product news lives in the FAQ & User Guide or, eventually, a dedicated changelog.
• Achievement / badge unlocks — Garden Almanac (Row #9) is the home for milestones. Weather is time-sensitive; achievements are reflective.
• Compost-imminent warnings for individual Seeds — handled inside the Vault detail view, not surfaced as Weather noise. (Storage-cap is the umbrella signal that drives Compost decisions, not 50 individual Seed warnings.)

The umbrella spec is locked. The presentation is open. Three approaches mocked below — each with strengths, tradeoffs, and the kind of Gardener mood they fit best. Pick one (or a hybrid) before we build the interactive prototype.

Every Weather item ends in an action — never an inert read. The action is a single tap that takes the Gardener to the surface where they can do something about the signal. Patterns:

Verb conventions

• Bloom Now — for ready-to-bloom Seeds ("Bloom Now →" · was "Open the Bloom →" · renamed 2026-05-10 for tighter ritual vocab match)
• Plant — for Seed Packet items, Grove contributions ("Plant a Seed →")
• Tend — for Vaults that have grown quiet ("Tend the Vault →")
• Claim — for Held-in-Trust Seed Keys ("Claim the Seed →")
• Look back — for On-This-Day items (lower-key verb, quieter retrospection)
• Manage — for storage / account-level items (used sparingly; this is the only place where slightly-administrative voice is acceptable)

Dismiss behavior

Some items can be dismissed (On This Day reflections), some cannot (a Bloom that's ready to open won't go away just because you swiped it). The dismiss-or-not status is per-signal-type, locked in the spec. Dismissing an item doesn't fire any state change beyond removing it from Weather — it doesn't release the Seed, it doesn't mark it read, it just acknowledges “I saw this, not now.”

Relationship to notifications

Weather signals and notification preferences are tied to the same underlying events (per HW#41 expansion). When a Bloom is ready, both fire — push/SMS for the user out of the app, Weather for when they come back in. The notification is the alert; Weather is the home that holds the alert until the Gardener acts on it.

Action button copy is brand voice

Per HW#41 (umbrella spec), Weather signals and notifications are the same source firing at two surfaces:

• Out-of-app notification (push or SMS) — alerts the Gardener something is happening when they're not in DandyLine
• In-app Weather Hub item — surfaces the same signal when they come back

This means: a Gardener who has notifications off for a particular type still sees the corresponding Weather items when they open DandyLine. Notifications and Weather are not redundant — they're the same intent surfaced where the Gardener actually is.

Implications for build

• The signal generation logic is one source of truth, not two
• Notification preferences gate the out-of-app side only; Weather always shows everything (per the Gardener's preferences for what types they care about — to be set in the Notifications screen)
• An item viewed in Weather can mark its corresponding notification as read (so the badge count drops when the Gardener handles it in-app)
• Read state is per-Gardener, per-signal — sealed against changes in other Vaults' Weather feeds (e.g., a Grove member dismissing an item doesn't dismiss it for everyone)

SMS-only at MVP

While DandyLine is web-app-only, notifications fire as SMS (covered in Onboarding Setup screen 4 transparency note). Weather is unaffected — it's an in-app surface, no carrier involvement. When native iOS / Android ships, push joins SMS; Weather stays the same shape.

The full Weather Hub is the home for all signals. But on the Field homepage — the surface a Gardener sees most often — a smaller widget shows the top one or two signals as a peek. This is the existing “Weather Update” pattern already live on the homepage (e.g., "Grandma planted 3 seeds this week. Your field is growing."). It's the entry point to the full Hub, not a replacement.

Behavior · auto-scroll + count bubble

• Auto-scrolls through multiple signals when there's more than one — gentle 5–7 second hold per item, soft fade-or-slide between them. Pauses on hover/tap so the Gardener can read at their own pace.
• Count bubble on the right edge shows total Weather items not visible in the widget rotation (e.g., +4). Tapping the bubble opens the full Weather Hub. This is the affordance for "there's more here when you want it."
• Each card is tappable — same action-button behavior as the full Hub. A tap on the card text routes to that signal's destination. The bubble is a separate tap that opens the Hub instead.
• Top items only in the widget rotation. Lean: max 3 items in the loop, with the bubble counting overflow. So a Gardener with 12 items sees 3 rotating + +9 in the bubble.

Visual treatment

Sage-toned, matching the existing live homepage Weather Update card. Cloud icon at top-left as the signal-type indicator (or per-signal icon when we have visual distinctions for each type). Contributor names highlighted in sage (e.g., "Grandma planted 3 seeds this week") — adds color variety beyond a gold-only palette and quietly anchors who the signal is about. Soft glow particles in the background for the time-active feel.

Empty state

If no Weather items exist, the widget either hides completely OR shows a quiet placeholder card: "The garden is quiet today." Never administrative copy like "0 notifications" or "No new updates." Lean: hide entirely on the Field homepage when empty — let the Field's other content breathe. Confirm with Field-page redesign session.

The widget vs. the full Hub

• Widget (this section) — compact, top 1–3 items, auto-scroll, count bubble for "more," lives on the Field homepage
• Full Hub (Sections 1–5) — full feed, all items, manual scroll, no auto-advance, lives at /weather reachable from the bubble + Gardener Menu

Why this matters for color discipline

Resolution pass 2026-05-06 — see biz-dev-decisions-log.md 2026-05-06 entry. Q1 locked at Spec; Q2–Q9 deferred to focused build/design/Josh sessions; new Qs ⑩–⑮ raised by Ashley's design feedback.

New questions raised in 2026-05-06 review (Ashley feedback)

Words used in Weather (on-brand)

• Open, Plant, Tend, Claim, Look back, Manage — action verbs (Manage is the one slightly-administrative exception, used sparingly)
• Bloom, Seed, Vault, Grove, Held in Trust, Seed Packet — vocabulary nouns
• Today / This week / Older — temporal grouping (gentle, not clock-y)

Words explicitly NOT in Weather

• Today's Schedule, Daily Tasks, To-Do, Action Items, Pending — productivity-app vocabulary
• Update, Refresh, Click here, Tap here, Now, Urgent — generic UI / urgency language
• You've completed, You earned, X% done — gamification
• Reminder as a label (we say "A Seed waits..." or "X needs tending..." — never "Reminder:")