Enhancements were made to the handling of advisories, such as those issued by the National Weather Service (NWS): warning, watch, advisory. Changes in the WeatherService architecture were made for this. Now, advisories are modeled as dynamic “Advisory” components, in an “Advisories” container under a WeatherReport’s “Current” component. An “Advisory Manager” view on this container provides all the provider-issued details for any selected advisory.

By default, advisories also result in Niagara alarms (as in AX-3.5). However, this is configurable, in case advisory alarms are not desired.

Properties for “Ozone” (ppm) and “Particulate Matter” (ug/m^3) values were added in a NWS WeatherProvider’s CurrentConditions (“Current”) component, as well as in Forecast child components (“Today”, “Tomorrow”, and so on).

Related “air quality views” became available for both “Current” and Forecast components, including support for use on Px pages. Air quality views provide color indication of air quality, based on an “AQI” (air quality index) calculation.