
MetPy 1.5.1 has been released with a few bug fixes for 1.5.0, including fixing reversed stationary fronts.
[Read More]07 July 2023
MetPy 1.5.1 has been released with a few bug fixes for 1.5.0, including fixing reversed stationary fronts.
[Read More]AWIPS Tips: Colorized GOES CIRA Products
28 June 2023
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!
Today we're taking the chance to highlight a few colorized GOES products that are produced by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. The three products we're looking at today are RGB (red-green-blue) combinations for Cloud-Snow Coverage, DEBRA Dust, and GeoColor images.
[Read More]AWIPS Tips: Removing Model Data from EDEX
14 June 2023
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!
This week we dive back into more details about managing your own EDEX server! If you are currently running and maintaining an EDEX of your own, and you haven't already, please check out our existing AWIPS Tips for EDEX. Today, we're going to talk about how to remove individual grib datasets from your EDEX immediately.
[Read More]AWIPS Tips: Visualizing Upper Air Soundings
31 May 2023
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we're going to take a look at another python-awips example notebook. This notebook walks users through how to request, modify, and visualize Upper Air Sounding data that is originally in BUFR format. Similar to most of our example notebooks, this one begins by creating an EDEX connection and then setting the data type. In this example we use the corresponding bufrua data type to request the BUFR sounding data.
[Read More]23 May 2023
Version 1.5.0 of MetPy, a collection of tools in Python for reading, visualizing, and performing calculations with weather data, has been released. The project aims to mesh well with the rest of the scientific Python ecosystem, including the Numpy, Scipy, and Matplotlib projects, adding functionality specific to meteorology. This release brings a few new features, including the ability to plot fronts and boundaries with appropriate styling as well as parsing WPC surface bulletins.
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