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Curious, I'm seeing lots of developers constantly sing the praise of the Rust programming language. I don't know much about it, so I want to ask the question: Does anyone know if Rust is a good language (in addition to Python) to learn for meteorology and/or data science/engineering? 🦀🦀🦀

C# seems like a decent language to build a console app weather data manager client that does a lot of things that my WxData Python library does minus processing. But then I can try using the C# equivalent of subprocess to execute a Python script that processes data after the download is done.

I think Python is #1 for data processing. I haven't found any libraries like pandas, numpy and xarray in the other languages I'm taking a stab at (C# mainly). Hot take: I'm not wasting my time with learning R if I have Python already.

Ok maybe not everything... But seriously, in meteorology you can use Python for literally almost anything and everything.

I had a conversation today with a colleague who is a fellow meteorologist and computer programmer on the topic:

"I'm trying to do this task in a language other than Python to expand my knowledge."

"I should just do it in Python because I can get it done quick."

You can use Python for everything.

Fall 2025 precipitation rank since 1895 using Prism climate data. 🌵☔

Python scientist users and educators: how long do you want to be warned about deprecated behavior in your research code & classroom examples/exercises before things change? What pace of change do you find acceptable? (This is not about @metpy.bsky.social)

One thought I just had to add to this, it also depends on the dependencies of the code/package. I'm still very new to C/C++ but I've noticed libraries that utilize Python with C require extra maintenance in this area. Perfect example is eccodes which is mainly C++ and is different between conda/pip.

Hmm... I guess it depends on how big the change is. The bigger the change, the more notice would be better to allow more time to implement the changes in an update. I'm not sure quantitatively how I should define "long" but I'll say "if you see something depreciated, say something."

For those who use WxData or any of my other packages, my DMs are open if you would like to provide feedback and you don't want your comments to be public.

I miss these views but I do not miss these driving conditions.

Lapdog beta soyboy says what?

This better be a satire. However, after seeing key phrases such as "weather enthusiast" and "storm chaser" I am not so sure.

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️Dear NY Post, please refer to the web page I created in 2022 detailing how to correct interpret the CPC products. Thank you for your attention to this matter. www.weather.gov/afc/GuideToI...

Happy first day of climatological winter!

And a reminder that, astronomically, the winter solstice is the *middle* of winter, not the start: it's the time of *least* sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere.

Why is that not the coldest day? Takes time for the ocean to cool down & we're a water planet.

Happy first day of Meteorological Winter!

@lesserwhirls.bsky.social @dopplershift.bsky.social tagging you both since this may interest you.

After also being on X for a few months, I will say: wxsky >>> wxtwitter. The algorithm prevents my posts from getting any reach and the folks there don't seem interested in software and more interested in what weather content creators post. Not exactly my type of meteorologist crowd.

me every time “max velocity” posts weather stuff on the internet

🎉WxData 1.0 Released!!🎉

Tired of post-processing GRIB? Using a VPN/PROXY server connection and sick of the SSL Errors when trying to download weather data? I got the Python package for you!

Release Notes: github.com/edrewitz/WxD...

Docs: pypi.org/project/wxda...

Repo: github.com/edrewitz/WxD...

WxData is now also on Zenodo zenodo.org/records/1772... #python #weather #dataengineering

One thing that WxData does is when there are connection interruptions, the client waits 30 to 60 seconds and then retries downloading the data to prevent incomplete downloads. Here is an example showing this when I downloaded the latest ECMWF IFS dataset this morning.

GitHub - edrewitz/WxData: A Python library that acts as a client to download, pre-process and post-process weather data. Friendly for users on VPN/PROXY connections. A Python library that acts as a client to download, pre-process and post-process weather data. Friendly for users on VPN/PROXY connections. - edrewitz/WxData

Here is the shortcut straight to the Jupyter Lab examples: github.com/edrewitz/WxD... #python #weather #meteorology #dataengineering

🧵Re-upping this and a couple other things for folks who were away for the holiday.

I don't think she is from Venezuela.

I know TPUSA wouldn't fight for my freedom of speech in this case because they are a bunch of ideological and political hacks that don't care about free speech. They only care about free speech when it fits their narrative.

If I had a very conservative professor who gave us this assignment, my scientific athiest self would make arguments for supporting the view that god doesn't exist as well as sowing doubt into the existence of a higher power and if I failed because of my views, would this same standard be applied?

Thinking of combining WxData with threading to make a data manager console application (Python executable). Also thinking of doing something similar in C# (.NET) to practice my C#. The goal is for the app to do everything running in the background so you won't need to schedule as many tasks.

I was in my first month and training on the public desk for that 2019 ice storm warning for the Anchorage Bowl.

This is the first Ice Storm Warning issued by the Anchorage NWS office since Nov 2019.