MetPy 1.5.0 Released

MetPy v1.5.0 has been released:

• Drawing fronts and boundaries using Matplotlib path effects for appropriate meteorological styling (e.g. cold fronts)
• Drawing regions with a scalloped style
• Parser for WPC surface bulletins
• CAPE and CIN calculations now use the virtual temperature correction
• Revamped the list of pre-defined plotting areas for the simplified plotting interface
• "Dark mode" now available in the docs (thanks pydata-sphinx-theme!)
• Last release to support Python 3.8

For full release notes see the GitHub Release Page.

MetPy packages are available for Conda on the conda-forge channel and for pip from the Python Package Index.

They can be installed with:

pip install metpy==1.5.0

conda install -c conda-forge metpy=1.5.0

Let us know if you run into any problems, either at MetPy issue tracker, or using support-python@unidata.ucar.edu. You can also ask questions using the "MetPy" tag on Stack Overflow, or on GitHub Discussions.