wx_code_to_numeric¶
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metpy.plots.wx_code_to_numeric(codes)[source]¶ Determine the numeric weather symbol value from METAR code text.
A robust method to identifies the numeric value for plotting the correct symbol from a decoded METAR current weather group. The METAR codes should be strings with no missing values or NaN strings (empty strings are okay).
For example, if from a Pandas Dataframe sfc_df.wxcodes.fillna(‘’)
- Parameters
codes (Array like containing string values of METAR weather codes) –
- Returns
array of numeric codes of current weather symbols from the wx_code_map for use in
plotting.