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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · Jul 23

The 2nd Edition of my textbook is now available! Biggest updates are in figure quality, including soundings based on SounderPy output thanks to @wxkylegillett.bsky.social making it freely available!

shop.elsevier.com/books/synopt...

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MetPy @metpy.bsky.social · Aug 7

We’ll have a 1.7.1 bug fix release before 1 Sep 2025 that will update the MetPy NEXRAD clients.

NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Aug 7

In conjunction with the AWS Open Datasets team, we are changing the AWS S3 bucket that contains up-to-date NEXRAD Level II archive data. There is a new bucket name and SNS notification topic, but no other changes. The legacy bucket name will be discontinued September 1, 2025. buff.ly/WVBvt26

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Jun 10

✨There’s still time to share your voice in the 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey, closing June 20!✨
Help shape how we support the Earth sciences community. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes, and will really help us understand your needs.

🔗 Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Jun 2

We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · May 20

✨Calling on our community: your feedback fuels our future✨
The 2025 Unidata Community Survey is still accepting responses. By sharing your experience and ideas, you help us return better prepared to serve the Earth systems science community.

🔗 Take the Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · May 9

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

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MetPy @metpy.bsky.social · May 1

MetPy 1.7.0 is out! Highlights include saturation vapor pressure (including over ice) and LCL calculations, automated high/low identification, and clients for accessing S3 archives of NEXRAD L2/L3, GOES, and ML weather prediction output (from NOAA/CIRA), and more! github.com/Unidata/MetP...

Release 1.7.0 · Unidata/MetPy

Highlights 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 co...

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Apr 28

✨The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is now live! ✨
Share your insights, support community progress.

Take 15 minutes to complete the survey, and as a thank you, you'll have the chance to enter a drawing for an NSF Unidata swag bag.

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Apr 23

Want a clean way to combine a Skew-T and time series in Python?
This week’s #MetPyMonday shows how to wrangle GridSpec for a tight layout with MetPy + Siphon. youtu.be/fzEJvnaXYJw?...

MetPy Mondays #327 – Complicated Layouts with GridSpec

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Apr 22

The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is coming next week!

By participating in the survey, you'll also have the chance to enter a drawing for a NSF Unidata swag bag!

📬 Watch your inbox or visit us here for the link once it goes live.
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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Apr 12

If you've been looking for a quick way to make some GOES composites (e.g. geocolor, airmass), here's a notebook showing how to do it using SatPy and AWS S3 data (optionally a little bit of the next @metpy.bsky.social release). gist.github.com/dopplershift...

Create GOES composite imagery products in Python using SatPy and data from public AWS S3 buckets.

Create GOES composite imagery products in Python using SatPy and data from public AWS S3 buckets. - GOES Composites with SatPy.ipynb

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Apr 1

Need to know which METAR station is closest to your point of interest? Checkout this week's #metpymonday

We show you how to:
✅ Build a clean station list from MetPy
✅ Find the nearest station using KDTree
✅ Find distance with GeoPandas
#Python

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MetPy Mondays #326 - Use KDTree and MetPy to Find the Nearest METAR

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MetPy @metpy.bsky.social · Mar 27

Have you tried looking at satpy? They should have some functionality for those types of images.

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · Mar 22

Made a new Gridded RH Observations graphics function for the next update in FireWxPy. We use the different interpolation methods found in @metpy.bsky.social's interpolate_to_grid() function. I set the default interpolation_method='cressman'. #python #dataviz #weather

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Mar 25

NSF Unidata is looking for creative people to help set the priorities and direction for our program. We need insights, ideas, and a better understanding of the science data challenges you're facing. Nominate someone (yourself?) to help us serve our community! www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Mar 7

Tired of downloading the same data over and over? In our latest #MetPyMonday, we show you how to build a local cache for NWS soundings! Learn how to automate your data retrieval and streamline your workflow in just a few minutes. youtu.be/Pl47QBjPlu4?...

MetPy Mondays #324 - Build a Custom Local Data Cache with Python

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Feb 19

🌍 New #MetPyMonday! 🚀

This week, we’re mapping wind roses on OpenStreetMap using CartoPy! 📊🌬️

✅ Extract & plot wind data
✅ Overlay wind roses on real-world maps
✅ Customize map layers for meteorology & GIS

Watch now! 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=neZt...

MetPy Mondays #323 - Mapping Wind Roses on OpenStreetMap with CartoPy

YouTube video by NSF Unidata

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Jan 22

Deadline is in 2 days!

NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Dec 17

Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Maybe you're interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by January 24, 2025 to work with us next summer: www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

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MetPy @metpy.bsky.social · Jan 22

Discover how to animate GOES satellite imagery of Hurricane Helene using Python's powerful libraries! In this MetPy Monday episode, we dive into the goes2go library to fetch GOES-16 ABI data and create stunning animations with Matplotlib’s FuncAnimation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxl1...

MetPy Mondays #321 - Visualizing Hurricane Helene with Python’s GOES2GO

YouTube video by NSF Unidata

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · Jan 5

Now we are bringing in the ensembles & as a reminder to folks why @metpy.bsky.social is a powerful tool since vorticity isn't a field in the ensembles like it is in the deterministic models. However, we can use metpy.calc to calculate vorticity from the u & v wind components in the ensemble field.

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Ryan May @dopplershift.bsky.social · Dec 30

Ever struggled to decode GRIB files with xarray+cfgrib/eccodes that have parameters it doesn't understand? This notebook should help you make the process a bit easier: gist.github.com/dopplershift...

Jupyter notebook demonstrating how to create custom GRIB definitions to use with eccodes

Jupyter notebook demonstrating how to create custom GRIB definitions to use with eccodes - Custom ECCODES GRIB definitions.ipynb

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MetPy @metpy.bsky.social · Dec 24

In this MetPy Mondays episode, learn how to make your plots smarter by setting units as Matplotlib axis properties! Stop manually converting your data and let Python handle it for you. #metpymonday www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT1p...

MetPy Mondays #319 - Streamline Your Matplotlib Plots with Units!

YouTube video by NSF Unidata

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MetPy @metpy.bsky.social · Dec 17

Come spend a summer working on MetPy!

NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Dec 17

Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Maybe you're interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by January 24, 2025 to work with us next summer: www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Dec 13

Siphon v0.10.0 has been released, with a lot of fixes to work with current versions of things like xarray, numpy, and protobuf, and support for Python 3.10-3.13. It also has bug fixes for things like Hyrax catalogs and Wyoming upper air archive access. Full release notes: github.com/Unidata/siph...

Release 0.10.0 · Unidata/siphon

Highlights Updates to for compatibility with xarray, numpy, and protobuf Updated to support Python versions 3.10-3.13 Improvements to parsing data from Wyoming upper air as well as support for req...

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