Dry window — outdoor work matched to the forecast
Read the Dry window card in the Foresight™ inbox: what counts as a dry day, which jobs it lists, and where the forecast comes from.
Foresight™ surfaces the pattern; NOAA supplies the forecast; you get a plan. When the seven-day forecast shows at least two dry days in a row and the maintenance schedule has outdoor work due, the Foresight™ inbox shows a Dry window card at the top: "Three dry days from Thursday — the varnish and the impeller are both due."
A dry day is a daytime forecast period with a 20% or lower chance of rain and wind of 15 knots or less. Nights are ignored — a shower overnight does not spoil the next day's work. The window is the next run of dry days, extended until the first wet or windy one.
The card lists the jobs that fit: work on a hull or deck unit, or any job whose name says exterior work — varnish, paint, teak, canvas, sealant, caulk, gelcoat, wax, polish, brightwork, antifouling, non-skid, bimini, dodger, isinglass, topsides. Only work the schedule already calls due is listed (overdue, or due within 30 days), most overdue first. An engine oil change is never offered a dry window; it is indoor work.
The forecast is NOAA's for the boat's position (her homeport when there is no fix). Outside NOAA's coverage (U.S. waters) there is no forecast, so there is no card. The inbox fetches it for that spot itself, whatever place the Weather sheet happens to be showing, and the footnote on the card names the source and the place. The app does not write forecasts. It reads NOAA's and lines it up against your schedule; when the forecast changes, so does the card.
Steps
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Open the Foresight™ inbox
Menu (☰) → Foresight, or the Foresight inbox strip on the Maintenance tab. The Dry window card sits above Unread when there is one. The inbox's cards end in their buttons — View trace; Raise a job on a service card about one unit; Mark read while it is unread; Dismiss — and at a large text size they run onto a second line instead of breaking a word.
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Read the days
Each line under the sentence is one dry day with the chance of rain and the wind the forecast gave it — the numbers the card was built from, so you can check them against the Weather sheet.
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Open a job
Tap any job on the card to open its work order — mark it done, assign a vendor, or attach a document, exactly as from the Maintenance list.
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See the whole list
Tap Open Maintenance to land on the maintenance list with everything due, not just the outdoor work.
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Refresh the forecast
Pull down on the inbox to force a fresh read from NOAA. Otherwise the card reuses the forecast pulled in the last 30 minutes. The same pull asks Foresight to read any records it has not read yet, including ones from the boat's other phones.
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Why there is no card
No card means one of three things: no forecast in hand (no position and no homeport to fetch one for, or NOAA did not answer: pull down to try again), no two dry days in a row in the next week, or no outdoor work due. The card never guesses.
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