Add lightning-alert ability

[hassan1731996]

Summary

• Real-time lightning and thunderstorm proximity monitor with zero API keys required
• Background daemon auto-detects location from user IP via ip-api.com, polls Open-Meteo 15-min granularity forecast + NOAA/NWS active alerts every 10 minutes
• Proactive voice alerts on storm onset (with minutes-to-arrival) and storm clearance
• Foreground skill handles on-demand queries (current status, timing, clear-check) and preferences (location, warning threshold)

Data sources

Source	Use	Key
Open-Meteo minutely_15	Storm timing at 15-min precision, global	None
NOAA NWS Alerts API	Official thunderstorm/lightning warnings, US	None
ip-api.com	Auto-detect lat/lon/timezone from user IP	None
Nominatim	City geocoding fallback when IP is cloud/VPN	None

Test plan

• Trigger "any lightning nearby?" — should respond with current conditions
• Trigger "how long until the storm?" — should give minutes-to-storm or "no storms forecast"
• Trigger "use London instead" — should geocode and confirm city switch
• Trigger "warn me 2 hours ahead" — should confirm 120-minute threshold
• Background: confirm daemon starts, location auto-detects from IP in logs
• Background: confirm 90-second startup grace period suppresses first-poll duplicates
• python3 validate_ability.py community/lightning-alert/ — passes clean

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PR direction: feature/lightning-alert → dev

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