Awesome! What do you use for scanning? Do you ever have to take them apart or anything to get good scans?

Want to learn more about METplus?! Come join John, Tina, and me at the RAL seminar series on Wednesday, April 22nd at 1pm MT, in person (FL2-1022) or virtual! 🌎📊

GTG3 versus GTG4 forecasts, showing the more highly detailed forecasts in GTG4

A plane being de-iced.

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I'm providing an update on CREDIT at 4:30 PM today in 330A at #AMS2026. Here's a taste of some of the changing views on ML weather prediction I will be providing. (Thanks @plustssn.autumnsky.us for the last minute bug fix!)

Happy Tuesday! 🌟 #AMS2026 is underway, and the conversations are just getting started. Check out our Tuesday lineup and connect with us! ral.ucar.edu/ams2026

Slide showing the different applications of METplus, a model verification package.

Today (Jan. 27) at 5:30 PM in Room 362C and virtually, I will be presenting about the @dtc-community.bsky.social METplus verification package and how it helps bridge research and operations! 🌎🌤️📊 #AMS2026

Come check out Tina’s talk and hear about the latest and greatest that METplus has to offer! — including new fire weather verification capabilities 🔥, data discovery features 🤩, and more! 📈

The movie shows 1 hour of categorical Icing Severity at a specific vertical level from the underlying HRRR NWP model, with GOES-East mesoscale satellite data, 5-minute ASOS and regular METAR surface reports, and 3D NSSL MRMS Mosaic radar reflectivity. Come learn more about how we've set this up!

Today at 5:00 CST in 340B and online I'll be presenting some preliminary work we're doing at @ncar-ral.bsky.social to run the Current Icing Product (CIP) every 1 minute to provide rapidly updating in-flight icing information for tactical aviation users! #ams2026 #uas #uam #uav #avgeek #aviation

Among all the eye-popping numbers in the December summary linked below, it's also the first public appearance of this annual weather/climate visualization which I am quite fond of.

Larger version at climate.colostate.edu/co_cag/index... in case resolution here isn't so good. #cowx

Maybe @aerosavvy.com?

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The METplus v6.2 Coordinated Release is full of new developments, enhancements, fixes, and more! 🥳📊📈

Check out the code: github.com/dtcenter

Sunset over Lake McIntosh and the Indian Peaks. The clouds are vibrant oranges, dark gray, and some pink.

November sunsets are perfection.

Always happy to help! My programming journey is built on those who went before me and I enjoy paying it forward.

And where did you decipher analyst falls? I’ve always been curious about these distinctions as well!

Sunrise with dramatic pink and orange colors, looking east.

From the Northern Lights last night to the sunrise today, the sky is really showing its full range of beauty.

North lights in Colorado, with green and red

Joining the crowds in posting — but these are the best Northern Lights I’ve seen in Colorado!

Modified @nycoloradan.bsky.social 's github example again, except this time for what the original example was about, the NDFD Hawaii grids. However, this algorithm allows us to clean up all the steps in the dataset so we can get the full set of data (the example had ds = ds.sel(step=0)). #python

Looks great, glad this was useful!

I’ll take a look for sure, I wish you the best of luck with this!

Just to clarify I think OPENDAP is served by NetCDF which is why you probably get the 2D lat/lon vs. GRIB. Your project will make you a GRIB expert in no time though!

Are you getting GRIB from HTTPS? I would guess (but am not an OPENDAP expert) that it is being served by NetCDF on the backend which are probably nicer than the equivalent GRIB version. But I have the same questions you do ultimately!

Nice! So RTMA for HI also had this odd reverse row ordering quirk?

Hmm it still seems like something isn’t right with the data. Even after smoothing see how it looks like a mirror image down the center meridian of the image? The smoothing gets rid of the streaks but it still seems like every other row of data is backwards. Maybe you’re still working on it?

So happy to see this was useful! I hadn’t heard anything on the discussion but figured you would get back to it at some point. Nice work!

The v6.1 METplus coordinated release is out and full of new features and enhancements 🥳 📈. Oh and did I mention that MET and the METplus wrappers are available via conda now?!

I think there are THREDDS data servers at NOMADS, NCEI which I think siphon would plug into but not sure about EC or ECMWF. Also check out “boto” for getting data from AWS buckets and “gustil” for downloading data from the Google cloud. That prob still doesn’t help with int’l data tho. Good luck!

www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/ldm/

Are you familiar with Siphon and THREDDS? www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/sip...