Open astrobokonon opened 5 years ago
MetPy 1.0 was released in December 2020! So I'm taking another look. It seems like it's better for GOES-R series data (https://unidata.github.io/python-gallery/examples/mapping_GOES16_TrueColor.html#sphx-glr-download-examples-mapping-goes16-truecolor-py) but I'm not sure about projection/reprojections with it.
Right now MetPy is at version 0.10.0 and it's a little too rough around the edges for me. They have support for some things that I really want, like the NWSReflectivity colortable and the baked-in US state & county lines that things like Cartopy and py-art don't have.
In the future, when MetPy gets closer to a 1.0-like release, it'd be good to go back and revisit things. For the NEXRAD data in particular right now, I'm not enthused enough to switch away from py-art. Consider:
to this mess in MetPy that I'm struggling thru:
the above one isn't even projected, yet, it's still in raw data units (distance from radar in km). Once MetPy reaches a more stable/streamlined interface it's really worth taking another look.