Hi,
MetPy 1.7.0 has been released:
* 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 constants and latent heat calculations
* New clients for accessing remote S3 archives for NEXRAD Level 2 & 3,
GOES, and ML Weather Prediction (from CIRA)
* Support for plotting WPC surface analyses in the simplified plotting
interface
* Shear and curvature vorticity calculations
* Stüve and Emagram plots
* Automatic identification of high/low locations
* Better support for plotting highs/lows using `scattertext`
For full release notes see the GitHub release page.
https://github.com/Unidata/metpy/releases/tag/v1.7.0
metpy packages are available for Conda on the conda-forge channel
and for pip from the Python Package Index.
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/metpy
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/metpy
Let us know if you run into any problems, either at metpy issue tracker,
or using support-python@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. You can also ask questions using
the "metpy" tag on Stack Overflow, or on GitHub Discussions.
https://github.com/Unidata/metpy/issues
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/metpy
https://github.com/Unidata/metpy/discussions
Cheers!
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Dr. Ryan May
Deputy Director
NSF Unidata
Boulder, CO
