Pygrib now on Windows via anaconda conda-forge

I was very excited to hear this news that pygrib is now available on Windows...

So there are now (FINALLY) Windows builds of PyGrib available from @condaforge. You can thank @wxchick10 for nerd-sniping me today.

Actually, a lot of thanks should go to @ECMWF for getting eccodes to build on windows.

I love my job.

— Ryan May (@dopplershift) November 15, 2019

I gave it a try, and it seems to open HRRR grib2 files just fine. This means my HRRR_Pando scripts will work on a Windows machine now. Happy day!

Verifying GFS dewpoint data with MesoWest observations

For a class assignment, I needed to verify GFS model output with MesoWest data. I used pygrib to read in the grib file, then used some custom functions that grab data from the MesoWest API.

Here is the output figures and my code.


The output:

gist: