MetPy 1.2.0 Released

MetPy 1.2.0 has been released:

• Added K-Index and Totals Totals sounding index functions
• Added wind gusts to parse METAR output
• Significant performance increase for moist lapse and a variety of related functions
• GEMPAK sounding reader is much faster now
• Fixed SkewT compatibility with Matplotlib 3.5
• Fixes for a variety of edge cases in moist_lapse
• Variety of bugs fixed in METAR and GEMPAK readers
• Full support for Python 3.10

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==1.2.0  

  conda install -c conda-forge metpy=1.2.0  

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.