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[sgofferj]

Hi there,

I just ran across MetPy when I started to learn Python and I'm intrigued. I'm running the non-profit stormchaser and weather website saakeskus.fi since 2008 and the reason why I started learning Python was that I kinda want to get rid of GrADs. GrADs is so old and it's getting harder and harder to even compile on modern Linux systems... I'm still at the beginning at my learning but back then, I learned GrADs to the point that I could start my website in about 6 weeks, so I'm optimistic :D. One point of frustration, though, is that there doesn't seem to be any kind of docs for total beginners - but that seems to be a thing in the Python world. Everything seems to just reference something else. My favorite recent example is xarray - instead of giving a nice explanation of their datatypes, they basically say, a dataset is multiple dataarrays and mimics the memory structure of NetCDF.
In any case, looking forward to learning!

-Stefan

[dopplershift]

Welcome! A couple starting points I would recommend:

• For Python in the geosciences, the resources from Project Pythia are a great place to start: https://foundations.projectpythia.org/landing-page.html
• For MetPy, our user guide should help getting started: https://unidata.github.io/MetPy/latest/userguide/startingguide.html

[sgofferj]

Those look awesome, thanks!