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Hello, and thanks for reaching out to us for help! The collection of data accessed by `get_test_data` is available publicly in the "staticdata" directory on our GitHub repository here, https://github.com/Unidata/MetPy/tree/master/staticdata If you have any issues downloading that or reading it in afterwards, don't hesitate to follow up with us. Thanks! All the best, Drew > Trying to do skewT tutorial. The code tries to pull data from internal > test files hosted on github. I'm behind a firewall and cannot directly > download data from github. Where is this magical test data so I can > download it separately? Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RKL-233057 Department: Support Python Priority: Low Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.