[omd/dev] sync with noaa/dev - #266

.github/workflows/run_mpas_hrrr.yml (Line: 157, Col: 11): Conditional expression contains literal text outside replacement tokens. This will cause the expression to always evaluate to truthy. Did you mean to put the entire expression inside ${{ }}?

.github/workflows/run_mpas_hrrr.yml (Line: 182, Col: 11): Conditional expression contains literal text outside replacement tokens. This will cause the expression to always evaluate to truthy. Did you mean to put the entire expression inside ${{ }}?

Node.js 20 is deprecated. The following actions target Node.js 20 but are being forced to run on Node.js 24: actions/upload-artifact@v4. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-19-deprecation-of-node-20-on-github-actions-runners/

`auto-activate-base` is deprecated. Please use `auto-activate`. If your installer does not use the `base` environment as the default environment, also add `activate-environment: base`.