DZDrizzle
The Great Penguin Mystery
A playful trilingual world of stories, games, messages, and things to make together, in English, Spanish, and German. Anyone can visit and play. Signing in is just for the family.
Storm track
Time runs across. Height is maximum sustained wind, read from each status's METAR. The red ring marks the current position, and the cone ahead of it assumes conditions persist. A dashed stretch spans two weeks or more without a report, and the time axis breaks across it, marked // with how long it lasted.
Meteogram /the last two days and the week ahead/
Advisories /28, newest first/
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Advisory 28 DZ Drizzle
Versions 8.55 and 8.56, after a report from the family. The shared holiday drawings in the Celebration Corner, now the Lantern walk, got two fixes: their automatic Keepsake picture now shows the drawing as it was at the end of the day, not just after its first change, and a new Save to Keepsakes button saves a picture at any time. Placing stickers sometimes froze until the page was reloaded; the likely causes were fixed on every sticker page, and a full picture now says so instead of ignoring the tap. Stable and in use, with bugs fixed as the family reports them. Over the next few days the family tries the Lantern walk on the iPad, with St. Martin's Day on 11 November, since only real use will show whether the freeze is gone; World Explorers, which shares this code, gets the same check. The Advent calendar opens on 26 November.
METAR XGPM 060420Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 27 DZ Drizzle
Version 8.54 fixed taps on iPhone, after a report from the family. A quick double tap on a button no longer zooms the page, and a long press on a button, link, or picture no longer selects its words or opens the copy menu, while pinch-zoom, scrolling, and selecting text in text boxes still work. Stable and in use, with small fixes as the family reports them. The tap fix gets tried on the iPhone over the next few days, the lantern-walk season is under way, and the Advent calendar opens on 26 November.
METAR XGPM 051842Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 26 DZ Drizzle
A tidy-up of the published site, with no change to the pages themselves. Stable and in use, with small releases as the family asks for things. The decorated photo surprise gets its first try on the iPad in the coming days, the lantern-walk season starts in early November, and the Advent calendar opens on 26 November.
METAR XGPM 310044Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 25 DZ Drizzle
Versions 8.52 and 8.53 redesigned the owner's tools, with panels running full width where they would leave gaps.
METAR XGPM 300545Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 24 DZ Drizzle
Version 8.51. A photo surprise in the Celebration Corner can now be decorated with stickers before it is hidden, whether the photo is taken or picked from the library.
METAR XGPM 291049Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 23 DZ Drizzle
Version 8.50, two fixes the family asked for. On the Día de Muertos Ofrenda in the Celebration Corner, opening the sticker tab on an iPad held upright had made the page about three screens wide; the sticker categories now scroll sideways inside their panel, as in Holiday Crafts and the Photo Booth. When Chess or Checkers is played between the two bases, each player now sees the board from their own side of the table, with their pieces at the bottom and their captured pieces beside them. Stable and in use, with small fixes as they come up. The Ofrenda, open until 3 November, gets tried on the iPad over the next few days, the turned board gets its first test in the next game between the bases, and the lantern-walk season arrives in early November.
METAR XGPM 290845Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 22 TSTM Thunderstorm
Versions 8.47 to 8.49, a burst of work on the baby penguin's page. The baby got holiday outfits, a Growing up photo album, and little notes in the family mailbox. Its friends now drop by and leave at random, chatting or doing tricks, and the yard decorates itself for each holiday. A photo of the baby that would not save now saves, and holiday calendars can have a different set of doors each year, from 2027. The rest of the site stays stable and in use. A check of the new yard on an iPad comes over the next few days, and nothing else is planned until the family asks for something.
SPECI XGPM 221955Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG= -
Advisory 21 DZ Drizzle
Version 8.46. Asteroid Defender 3D joined the Arcade as its 24th game, with family high scores and 68 stickers in the Hall of Fame. Stable and in use, with a steady run of small releases. A first try on a real iPhone or iPad comes this week, with a check that the first score reaches the Hall of Fame.
METAR XGPM 200124Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG RMK 24 GAMES 68 STICKERS= -
Advisory 20 HIPRES High pressure
Done, and settled into regular use, with bugs fixed as they appear. The Celebration Corner still changes with each holiday.
METAR XGPM 182018Z 00000KT CAVOK 95/03 Q1030 NOSIG= -
Advisory 19 DZ Drizzle
Versions 8.44 and 8.45, two fixes to the voice surprise in the Celebration Corner. Pressing Hide it! while a message is still recording now stops the recording and hides it, where before it asked for something to be made first. On iPhone and iPad a recording came out empty while a FaceTime call held the microphone, as iOS lets no website use it during a call; the page now says the microphone is busy and to record after the call, in all three languages, and puts the Record button back. A check on a real iPhone after the next call comes next, and the same hint may follow on the other recording pages. The Celebration Corner moves on to Día de Muertos on 25 October.
METAR XGPM 181542Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 18 DZ Drizzle
The automatic backups moved to storage of their own, with a log of every run and a download button.
METAR XGPM 121000Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG= -
Advisory 17 DZ Drizzle
Versions 8.41 and 8.42. Home page sections now fold away, calendar doors left unopened get catch-up days, and a backup fault on the server was fixed. After 16 releases in four days the site settles into steady use, with a check on 12 October that the nightly backup runs once, and the first catch-up days after Halloween, from 2 to 15 November.
METAR XGPM 112130Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG RMK 6 CALENDARS 95 PAGES= -
Advisory 16 TSTM Thunderstorm
Versions 8.39 and 8.40. The holidays gained outfits, reveals, and phrasebook words, a sixth door calendar arrived for Children's Day, keepsakes now print at full quality, and a safeguard keeps a failed read from wiping saved data on any page.
SPECI XGPM 091000Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG 6 CALENDARS= -
Advisory 15 TSTM Thunderstorm
Version 8.35, after nine releases in one day. A new Celebration Corner changes through the year, with door calendars for Halloween, Advent, Valentine's Day, Easter, and a birthday, plus spaces to decorate together. Doors take themed shapes and animate with a sound as they open, a finished calendar prints as a poster, and while a holiday is on, the whole site dresses up for it. Next comes a month of watching the Halloween calendar in daily use, with the Día de Muertos and lantern-walk seasons arriving in early November.
SPECI XGPM 081511Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG 5 CALENDARS 8 SEASONAL LOOKS= -
Advisory 14 CLR Clear
Version 8.27. The Holiday Crafts page shipped, with ten crafts to decorate and share, from eggs and gingerbread to trees and pumpkins.
METAR XGPM 081000Z 00000KT CAVOK 95/03 Q1024 NOSIG RMK 10 CRAFTS= -
Advisory 13 TRPCL STM Tropical storm
A new Holiday Crafts page is about 90 percent built, with ten crafts to decorate and share, from eggs and gingerbread to trees and pumpkins. It ships as version 8.27 within a day.
METAR XGPM 072232Z 09035G55KT 3000 +TSRA BKN012CB 95/03 Q0998 TEMPO 1000 +TSRA RMK 10 CRAFTS= -
Advisory 12 TSTM Thunderstorm
Version 8.26. A sticker round brought 131 new hand-drawn stickers, with the holiday stickers grouped together and new tabs for seasons, sports, music, and dinosaurs. Security was tightened the same day.
SPECI XGPM 071000Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG 441 STICKERS 95 PAGES= -
Advisory 11 DZ Drizzle
Version 8.24. The Photo Booth, the most-used feature, gained 184 hand-drawn stickers, ready-made dress-up sets, a mirror button for stickers, a self-timer, a four-shot photo strip, frame styles and colors, and 15 photo moods. The photo, keepsake, and drawing galleries now group by today, the last few days, and month by month, with a date picker. A tablet check of the timer and the photo strip comes next, then the story page.
METAR XGPM 021000Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG RMK 340 STICKERS 95 PAGES= -
Advisory 10 DZ Drizzle
Version 8.22. A Stormy Fans stamp code now waits on the site, open to every visitor without signing in. Touch-ups continue after last week's burst, with a tablet check of the newest pages next and the story page after that.
METAR XGPM 011000Z 23005KT 8000 -DZ BKN020 95/03 Q1014 NOSIG RMK 95 PAGES= -
Advisory 9 TSTM Thunderstorm
Redesign rounds swept the games, the makers, and the learning extras. Ninety new stickers now share one tool across eight maker pages, all in daily use, with a tablet check next.
SPECI XGPM 290220Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG= -
Advisory 8 TSTM Thunderstorm
A wide band of restyling crossed the pages, and the learning section was rebuilt as paths of levels that unlock with mastery.
SPECI XGPM 281000Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG= -
Advisory 7 TSTM Thunderstorm
Four maker pages overhauled in one sweep.
SPECI XGPM 261430Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG= -
Advisory 6 TSTM Thunderstorm
The collection page rebuilt as well, closing a week-long burst. In daily use, with a check on the tablet next.
SPECI XGPM 261400Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG= -
Advisory 5 GR Hail
Two more history pages rebuilt, with several faults cleared along the way.
METAR XGPM 261000Z 26015G28KT 4000 TSGR BKN030CB 95/03 Q1007 NOSIG= -
Advisory 4 TSTM Thunderstorm
One history page rebuilt from the ground up.
SPECI XGPM 251000Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG= -
Advisory 3 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
The new feature picked up its finishing touches.
METAR XGPM 201000Z 24008KT 9999 SCT040 95/03 Q1015 NOSIG= -
Advisory 2 TSTM Thunderstorm
A new feature made landfall, and a stale-update fault cleared the same day.
SPECI XGPM 191000Z 27018G32KT 5000 +TSRA BKN025CB 95/03 Q1009 RMK FREQ LTGICCG= -
Advisory 1 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
A new system forms. Work begins on a trilingual world of stories and games.
METAR XGPM 171000Z 24008KT 9999 SCT040 95/03 Q1015 NOSIG=
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