WPC Frontal Analysis

[WxmanJ]

Would love to see the ability to plot WPC frontal analysis and forecast products using MetPy.

[mzuranski]

I would also find this useful. Hoping this can get added someday.

[akrherz]

From an implementation standpoint, what does this request mean?

• That MetPy should be able to read a user provided WPC fronts file and plot it?
• That MetPy should be able to plots fronts in general?
• That MetPy should reach out to the Internet somewhere and use a web service that provides the WPC fronts data?

[mzuranski]

I would say your first bullet point would be ideal. Or if I knew how data I read in needs to look in order to pass to MetPy to plot, that could work too. I don't think a data retrieval feature would be necessary though.

[dopplershift]

Re-opening for now. #2420 added all the mechanisms necessary to do the plotting with matplotlib, provided you know where your features are.

#1944 is just about ready and will add parsing of the WPC bulletin as well as an example tying it all together.