Hi Tiffany,
Have you by chance tried to plot ldadmesonet data with the python DAF?
I used the regional surface plot from Unidata as a template and changed the data type to "ldadmesonet" which appears to be available. The issue comes in when running getMetarObs within the script. I know this was made for metar specifically, but when I use the ldadmesonet data, it comes back with an object. The issue "appears" to be finding the actual data within.
This is the block of coding I am having an issue with. If you have the opportunity to try it out yourself at a future date, please let me know.
# Create envelope geometry
envelope = Polygon([(bbox[0],bbox[2]),(bbox[0],bbox[3]),
(bbox[1], bbox[3]),(bbox[1],bbox[2]),
(bbox[0],bbox[2])])
# New obs request
DataAccessLayer.changeEDEXHost(edexServer)
request = DataAccessLayer.newDataRequest("ldadmesonet", envelope=envelope)
availableProducts = DataAccessLayer.getAvailableParameters(request)
single_value_params = ["timeObs", "StationId", "longitude", "latitude",
"temperature", "dewpoint", "windDir",
"windSpeed", "seaLevelPress"]
multi_value_params = ["presWeather", "skyCover", "skyLayerBase"]
params = single_value_params + multi_value_params
request.setParameters(*(params))
# Time range
lastHourDateTime = datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(minutes = 20)
start = lastHourDateTime.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
end = datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
beginRange = datetime.strptime( start , "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
endRange = datetime.strptime( end , "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
timerange = TimeRange(beginRange, endRange)
# Get response
response = DataAccessLayer.getGeometryData(request,timerange)
# function getMetarObs was added in python-awips 18.1.4
obs = DataAccessLayer.getMetarObs(response)
print("Found " + str(len(response)) + " records")
print("Using " + str(len(obs['temperature'])) + " temperature records")
for ob in obs:
print ob
Found 144 records
Using 0 temperature records
windDir
temperature
dewpoint
longitude
skyCover
windSpeed
timeObs
stationName
latitude
presWeather
skyLayerBase
seaLevelPress
