MetPy 1.3.0 Released

MetPy 1.3.0 has been released with a variety of fixes and minor updates:

• Dropped support for Python 3.7
• Station information lookup now better documented works like a standard Python mapping
• Fixed problems with parcel profile functions and repeated pressure values
• Fixed some CF coordinate and unit identification bugs
• Fix for reading NEXRAD data from S3 with newer versions of Botocore
• Fixed wet_bulb_temperature to accept NumPy scalars
• Fixed problem using smoothing and unit conversion together in simplified plotting interface

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==1.3.0

conda install -c conda-forge metpy=1.3.0

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.