TAF sites?

Lotta attribution of budget issues to anecdotal forecast degradation going around. I loathe federal funding cuts more than most, but the question (and symptom) doesn't seem to be answered yet.

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incredible tornado near Truman, Iowa about a half hour ago, absolutely spectacular, loud ripper wrapping up in golf balls, videos tonight, that was just amazing

Fwiw (a comment not directed at you, just sending it into the ether), I hire for entryish scientist/python roles and always ask if people have SQL/ORM python experience because it is so so powerful. Sqlmodel makes it stupid easy to get started, can't recommend it enough (again, except in prod envs)

The best part is that you put in & take out python objects (and use the python objects to make the db, example in pic), so you're always in python. The pydantic aspect is great for type management. Sqlite dbs are just a file, so waaaaay easier than server based dbms', and a great starting point.

I reach for it when dealing with persistent data, it's way more efficient to store than pandas-produced csvs or requerying large datasets. Here's an example of putting data in the database and the object init with sqlmodel for an app I'm working on.

I'd offer that sqlite is handy and ubiquitous and using an ORM makes using SQL with Python a dream. sqlalchemy is the standard, with pydantic is good practice, and sqlmodel is latest greatest and combines the two (it's still an 0.x so I wouldn't use it at work, sqlalchemy is plenty), quick 🧵

Since everyone experiences weather, everyone is an expert

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February 2026 Colorado Monthly Climate Summary statewide departure from 1901-2000 avg: +9.2°F statewide departure from 1991-2020 avg: +7.6°F statewide rank: 1st warmest/132nd coldest Warmest February on record statewide Snowpack remains lowest in over 40 years Several locations, including Denver, Fort Collins, Akron, and Colorado Springs shatter records for most 60°F+ days Multiple grass fires, including ones near Boulder, Thornton, Matheson, and Wiggins Maximum daily precipitation (1.8" at Spud Mountain) Minimum daily temperature (-27°F in Taylor Park) Maximum daily temperature (85°F in Pueblo and Campo) Maximum daily snowfall 12.5" near Bayfield) February 2026 Temperature Rank (from NCEI nclimgrid) Statewide Temperature and Precipitation Ranks for February 2026 (based on 1895-2026 data) 1st warmest (record warmest) 37th driest (below average)

Unfortunately, not much good news to share in our February state climate summary. According to NOAA data, it was the warmest February in 132 years of records. Mountain snowpack remains at the lowest level in over 40 years. Several locations set new monthly high temperature records for February. 1/4

Just some typical #COwx stacks

I can pull and read those, much appreciated, but I'm looking for a list of all the labels. A subset below. If it's not handy, I'm sure I can piece it together.

Is there a publicly available list of all the possible polygon labels? Specifically the values that can be populated in the label2 fields of the outlooks.

Excuse me if this is an easy REST api question - I typically direct download shapefiles and load into geopandas.

Not the worst day of 2025

Had the same thought, but those were IQR!

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Gonna have to ask you to move your cloud

Happy ten o'clock!

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Power spectrum alarmism

Must.. Photograph.. Wind..

What an incredibly vindicating other comment

Depends on the maturity. Having the deprecation warning on the major version upgrade prior is best as we can assign a max version number to our setup/pyproject while upgrading.. that way it's clear that we can't have x+1.0 until we address the deprecation.

Unless of course you have hard to build packages.. that's one thing conda is still the best for.

Otherwise the equivalent to conda environments is:
install from source (python.org)
python -m venv name_of_env
source name_of_env/bin/activate
pip install package

I don't understand why the advice is a switch languages, conda is just a fancy pypi wrapper.. I switched my team to venv/pip or (lately) uv is the preferred alternative to building a virtual environment.

Denver Aurora!!

Big whirls have little whirls
That feed on their velocity
And little whirls have lesser whirls
And so on to viscosity

Mornings in RMNP

Changing colors in Medicine Bow National Forest, WY. [Fujifilm Klasse, Portra 400]