@metpy.bsky.social
Official BlueSky account of MetPy, a Python toolkit for meteorology. Sponsored by Unidata and NSF-funded. Community discussions at: https://github.com/Unidata/MetPy/discussions
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28.01.2026 21:48 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Are you at #AMS2026? Come chat with NSF Unidata staff members at the UCAR booth (#119 in the exhibit hall) from 9:45am - noon this morning. We'll also be there from 3:00-6:00pm, and from 1:00-6:00pm on Wednesday. Check our schedule for times: buff.ly/NIXTDSe
27.01.2026 15:15 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Howdy folks attending #AMS2026! If you'd like to chat with staff members from the NSF Unidata Program Center, we'll be at the UCAR booth (#119 in the exhibit hall) on Tuesday and Wednesday. Check our schedule for times: buff.ly/NIXTDSe
26.01.2026 20:02 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu
12.12.2025 00:39 — 👍 21 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
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!
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We’ll have a 1.7.1 bug fix release before 1 Sep 2025 that will update the MetPy NEXRAD clients.
07.08.2025 19:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
✨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.
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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
02.06.2025 19:00 — 👍 209 🔁 54 💬 2 📌 12
✨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.
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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
09.05.2025 16:00 — 👍 61 🔁 54 💬 4 📌 29
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...
01.05.2025 20:10 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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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?...
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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...
12.04.2025 18:12 — 👍 67 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 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
youtu.be/nMTFb-8e1Nk?...
Have you tried looking at satpy? They should have some functionality for those types of images.
27.03.2025 18:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
22.03.2025 02:08 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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...
25.03.2025 15:52 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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?...
07.03.2025 00:43 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 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...
Deadline is in 2 days!
22.01.2025 23:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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...
22.01.2025 23:28 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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.
05.01.2025 20:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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...
30.12.2024 22:21 — 👍 51 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0
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...
24.12.2024 03:11 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Come spend a summer working on MetPy!
17.12.2024 18:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
13.12.2024 23:47 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Learn how to customize SkewT diagrams based on a recent question on GitHub! #Metpymonday #Meteorology #PythonForWeather #AtmosphericScience #DataVisualization youtu.be/3iPujH33WsI
10.12.2024 18:33 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0