MetPy 1.7.0 Released

MetPy 1.7.0 has been released:

• New analytic LCL calculation based on Romps (2017)
• New saturation vapor pressure calculations, relative to both ice and liquid, using Ambaum (2020)
• Moisture/temperature dependent gas constants and latent heat calculations
• New clients for accessing remote S3 archives for NEXRAD Level 2 & 3, GOES, and ML Weather Prediction (from CIRA)
• Support for plotting WPC surface analyses in the simplified plotting interface
• Shear and curvature vorticity calculations
• Stüve and Emagram plots
• Automatic identification of high/low locations
• Better support for plotting highs/lows using scattertext

For full release notes see the GitHub release page. https://github.com/Unidata/metpy/releases/tag/v1.7.0

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

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.