Timeline for dropping support for Python 2.7
09 April 2018
Work in the overall scientific Python ecosystem to sunset Python version 2.7 is underway in earnest, so the time has come for Unidata's Python team to start planning the timeline for our own software (MetPy and Siphon) to do the same. We propose to drop support for Python 2.7 in the Fall of 2019; this means that releases of MetPy and Siphon in the Fall of 2019 will be the first that support only Python 3.
[Read More]04 April 2018
Siphon 0.7.0 has been released with a variety of new features and some bug fixes. Packages are available for Conda and the Python Package Index (PyPI). For full release notes see the GitHub Release Page.
[Read More]Plotting AWIPS Map Resources with Python
12 April 2017
The python-awips package provides access to the entire AWIPS Maps Database for use in Python GIS applications. Map objects are returned as Shapely geometries (Polygon, Point, MultiLineString, etc.) and can be easily plotted by Matplotlib, Cartopy, MetPy, and other packages.
[Read More]Simple Plotting in Python with matplotlib
01 June 2016
In this series, we work on some simpler tasks:
Plotting GINI Water Vapor Imagery (Part 2)
16 February 2016
This is Part 2 of a series of notebooks showing how to plot GINI-formatted satellite data from a THREDDS server using MetPy and Siphon. In Part 1 we covered how to access and parse the data file. In this part, we cover:
