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[python #XYC-538792]: Figure too narrow on the x axis

Greetings!

Apologies for the delayed response.

That's challenging to do and produce a plot that still looks normal, due to the 
way the SkewT plotting works, with the skewed axis.

Your best way to make a plot that expands the horizontal data dimensions, which 
will still keep things looking "normal":

   skew.ax.set_xlim(15, 40)

You can probably also get something with:

   skew.ax.set_aspect(83, adjustable='datalim')

Hope this helps,

Ryan

> Dear MetPy support team,
> 
> I have used MetPy to plot vertical profiles of temperature as well as
> parcel profiles in order to visualize the CAPE.
> 
> The MetPy library is great and easy to use, although I do have a small
> issue in displaying the figure. I have set the plot limits using the
> following:
> 
> fig = plt.figure()
> skew = SkewT(fig, rotation=45)
> [..]
> skew.ax.set_ylim(1000,300)
> skew.ax.set_xlim(20,30)
> 
> The code works, but the figure displayed is very narrow on the x axis, as
> you can see on the attached image. I have tried many different ways to
> stretch out the x axis, including the matplotlib functions such as
> plt.figure(figsize=(x,y)) or plt.figure().set_figwidth(x), but also MetPy
> functions like skew.ax.set_aspect(x) for example, but none seem to work.
> 
> Do you have an idea on how I could stretch out the values on the x axis in
> order to display that figure in a clearer way?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XYC-538792
Department: Support Python
Priority: Low
Status: Closed
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