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CRAN Submission - weatherOz 3.0.0

This is a major release with new forecast functionality and breaking changes to wind data structure.

Major changes in this version

New features

Added MET Norway (Norwegian Meteorological Institute) forecast support with get_metno_forecast() and get_metno_daily_forecast()
New vignette documenting forecast functionality and combining historical and forecast data
Three new exported helper functions for advanced forecast data manipulation

Breaking changes

Wind data structure in get_dpird_summaries() changed from long to wide format
Wind column names now include _3m and _10m suffixes (e.g., wind_max_speed_3m, wind_max_speed_10m)
Removed wind_height column
Added new wind columns: wind_max_date and wind_max_time_of_day for each height
This change provides clearer data structure and eliminates issues with mixed-height rows

Bug fixes

Fixed critical timezone bug causing one-day gap when combining historical and forecast data
Fixed wind time column parsing for mixed date/time formats
Improved internal code structure with extracted helper functions (no user-facing impact)

Test environments

local macOS Sequoia 15.2, R 4.4.3
GitHub Actions (ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macOS-latest), R release and devel

R CMD check results

There were no ERRORs or WARNINGs.

There was 1 NOTE:

* checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
Maintainer: 'Rodrigo Pires <rodrigo.pires@dpird.wa.gov.au>'

Breaking changes justification

The wind data structure change is a breaking change but necessary for several reasons:

Previous long format with mixed heights per row caused data interpretation issues
Aligns with common practices ie one row per observation with consistent column names

Additional notes

All tests pass successfully
New vignette provides examples for forecast functionality
Migration guide included in NEWS.md for users upgrading from v2.x
No changes to other API functions - only get_dpird_summaries() wind data affected