Changelog

Tonight's frost and the next cold nights for the Danniyeh highlands, hour by hour, with the highland fog for the roads — and a reminder to protect the water pipes before a hard freeze, the cold that burst them and cut the taps across the jurd villages in February 2025. It reads the Open-Meteo forecast and points to the national met service; a modelled estimate, not a measurement.

"Is There a Fire Near Danniyeh?" reads NASA's satellites for heat in the forests around town over the last couple of days — a way to notice a fire early in the dry months, with the Civil Defence line (125) to report one. It shows where satellites saw heat, which is not the same as a confirmed fire, so it points you where to look rather than replacing the fire service.

The town page now opens with a drawing of the highland valley — a stone spring feeding a pool, terraced apple and cherry orchards, juniper and cedar climbing the slopes, and late snow on the high peaks.

The highland orchard year, month by month: when the apples, cherries, pears and stone fruit are picked, the rains and the winter freeze behind them, and the markers that open the year — pruning, blossom, the flocks going up to the jurd, and the autumn apple harvest and its export story.

Work out whether rooftop solar could beat your generator bill — the rough size, cost, yearly saving and payback, in plain arithmetic. It uses the higher generator rate that applies above 700 m and is honest that winter, when you need power most, is when the panels make least. No sales pitch, nothing to sign.

Tap the appliances you'd run at the same time and it works out the load in watts and amps, then shows whether it fits a 5-amp or 10-amp subscription — and what each costs a month. It pairs with the Generator Bill Checker: this one helps you choose the subscription, that one checks the bill.

Danniyeh has some of the richest water in Lebanon and still loses the taps — because the trouble is delivery, not supply. This new board lets neighbours tell each other where the water is out right now: tap your village to report dry taps and see whether others nearby are too. It carries the North Lebanon Water Establishment's Danniyeh line for reporting a cut-off, and explains the two things that stop the water here — a long power cut stopping the pumps, and a winter freeze splitting the highland pipes.

The Generator Bill Checker was showing a tariff that turned out to be about a year out of date. It now uses the Ministry of Energy and Water's most recent published monthly ceiling (May 2026); the fixed monthly fees are unchanged. The ministry resets the tariff every month, so always check the latest before you compare.

Three tools to start: a neighbour-reported board for where the power is out across the villages, a generator-bill checker that includes the +10% highland rate, and the emergency, hospital, council, water and power numbers in one place. More to come — these are in English for now, as the platform does not yet render Arabic.