# Sunset Beach, NC

> Conditions app for one beach — Sunset Beach, North Carolina: surf and rip current risk, tides, water quality, wildlife timing, town events and rocket-launch visibility from public agency data, as an iOS app and a web page.

All of these pages as one Markdown file: https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/llms-full.txt
Support: https://support.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach

## Pages

- [What is Sunset Beach, NC?](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/): Sunset Beach, NC is a conditions app for one beach — Sunset Beach, North Carolina — that gathers what public agencies already publish about this stretch of coast (surf, rip risk, tides, water quality, wildlife timing, events, rocket launches) into an iPhone app and a web page.
- [Get the app and find your way around](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/app/getting-started/): How to use Sunset Beach on iPhone or on the web, what the five tabs hold, what the loading and "Can't load conditions" screens mean, and what the ⓘ buttons and "last known good" labels are telling you.
- [The Today tab](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/app/today/): What each part of the Today tab shows — the verdict and its four tiles, alerts, Best time today, Next hours, What it's good for, Sunrise & sunset, The week ahead, Water quality, Air & sun, Practical and Coming up — and which source each number comes from.
- [The Water tab](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/app/water/): What the Water tab shows — one tide card (height now, Tide chart, today's highs and lows, Against the prediction), Coming days, In the surf (the NWS surf zone forecast for the west sub-zone, swell and water temperature), and Further out (Offshore, The sound and the ICW, Shellfish) — and where each comes from.
- [The Plan tab — the week, what's worth a trip, launches and events](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/app/events/): What the Plan tab shows — the filter chips, Seven days (each day's best pick, with a day page of tides, surf, swimming and every window), Worth a trip (Bird Island and a full moon over the ocean), the Next visible launch and its detail screen, and the events list (town calendar, Sunset Sound Waves and pier concerts, launches, tonight's sunset) with what "series" means.
- [The Nature tab — whales, sightings, birds, turtles and the map](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/app/nature/): What each part of the Nature tab shows and where it comes from — Happening now, Right whales, Fishing, Seen near here lately, then Overhead (Migration radar, Birds) and Through the year (Times & seasons, Sea turtles, What you might see) — and what the screens they open contain.
- [When to go — the almanac windows, reminders and The year](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/app/when-to-go/): How the almanac decides when to be on the sand — the ten kinds of window (shelling, Bird Island, dolphins, ghost crabs, turtle hatch, right whales, shorebirds, moonrise, sunrise, sunset), seven days ahead, exact times with a forecast rating — the When to go screen, the window detail with Remind me, and the month-by-month year.
- [Fishing — what's biting, what's peaking and what you may keep](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/app/fishing/): What the Fishing screen shows — yesterday's catch from the Sunset Beach Fishing Pier's daily report, the twelve-species seasonal almanac (Peaking this month, Starting next month, Everything worth casting at), and the size and bag limits under Before you keep one, read by hand from NC DMF proclamations and checked against the live proclamation list.
- [More and Beach info — rules, access, parking, cams, ships and the tropics](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/app/beach-info/): The More tab (Alerts, Sources, Known gaps, Beach info, the made-by card with How it's built, and links to the guide, support, privacy, terms, Acknowledgements and the version) and the Beach info screen it opens — Getting there, Rules on the beach, Paid parking with Rates, Good to know and Paying, Beach cams, Ships offshore, The tropics, and Where this comes from. Shellfish moved to the Water tab.
- [Search](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/app/search/): How to open Sunset Beach's search, what it can find (every section, screen and explainer, plus fish, species, almanac windows, launches and sources), how results are ranked and what tapping one does, and how it relates to Siri, Shortcuts and iOS Spotlight.
- [Alerts and notifications](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/alerts/notifications/): What the Sunset Beach, NC app can notify you about — tide alerts, full moon and rocket launch reminders scheduled on your phone, one-off "Remind me" reminders for a window, the three pushed "When conditions change" alerts, their defaults, and how permission works.
- [Widgets and the launch Live Activity](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/alerts/widgets/): What the Sunset Beach, Tide and This week widgets show on the home screen and lock screen, how often they refresh, what "No data" means, and when the rocket-launch Live Activity appears on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
- [Siri, Spotlight and Shortcuts](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/alerts/siri-shortcuts/): The ten Siri shortcuts (and their phrases) Sunset Beach, NC answers, the three Shortcuts actions (Open Beach Screen, Search the Beach, Open Beach Alerts), the 66 "Beach Screen" places you can pick, and every sunsetbeach:// deep link the app resolves.
- [Sharing conditions](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/alerts/sharing/): What the share button on the Today, Water and Plan tabs of the Sunset Beach, NC app puts in a message — a composed sentence with the reading's own timestamp and the public web address, not a screenshot or an app-only link.
- [Where every number comes from](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/data/sources/): Every upstream Sunset Beach reads — more than 20 public data sources — with the station or feed it uses, what it feeds in the app, how often it is refreshed, and the known limits of each.
- [How fresh the data is](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/data/freshness/): How old a number in Sunset Beach can be — per-source cache lifetimes, the 5-minute warmer, the published conditions copy, and what "Cached" and "last known good" mean on a card.
- [How the app judges things](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/data/scoring/): How Sunset Beach turns data into verdicts — the four activity scores, their caps and the headline, hour-by-hour scoring and the best time, the AI-written summary on Today and the checker behind it, the layered-cloud sunset and sunrise model, rip current and swim verdicts, the rocket-launch visibility model, and the almanac window scores — with the thresholds behind each.
- [Limits and what it doesn't know](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/data/limits/): What Sunset Beach cannot tell you — one beach only, no lifeguards, no wave or water-level sensor at the beach, how stale a reading can be, upstream rate limits, which sources are scraped and fragile, the eBird key, what is deliberately not parsed, the inferred concert series, and hand-read fishing limits.
- [Privacy — what leaves your phone](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/data/privacy/): What the Sunset Beach, NC app sends and stores — no account, no analytics, no location, no third-party code; conditions requests that carry no identifier; a push token sent to the shared NeuralConfig push service only when you turn on a "When conditions change" alert or a launch Live Activity is running; and what is kept on the device.
- [How Sunset Beach is built](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/data/how-its-built/): How the Sunset Beach, NC app is put together, as its How it's built screen tells it — more than 20 public data sources gathered every five minutes by a Cloudflare Worker, checked, scored hour by hour and delivered to the app, widgets and alerts; where AI is used and the code that checks it; the model test that chose Claude Haiku; and what keeps it trustworthy and running.
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.neuralconfig.com/sunset-beach/troubleshooting/): What the Sunset Beach, NC app's error and empty states mean and what to do — "Can't load conditions", the "Showing saved data" and "Saved … Refreshing…" banners, Cached and Unavailable badges, alerts that never fire or arrive, empty widgets, a missing Live Activity, and search or Siri that go nowhere.