[python #OFO-708651]: convert a dimensioned quantity to undimensioned quantity -- FYI ONLY

Greetings!

Concrete feedback on things you find missing are always helpful. Your comments 
here provoked me to add this to our issue tracker:

  https://github.com/Unidata/MetPy/issues/2367

Out of curiosity, what were you doing that necessitated converting to a raw 
float?

Cheers!

Ryan

> I tried to convert my wind speed which had units of Knots to float.
> 
> I googled and check metpy reference found no way to do it.
> 
> It was pretty easy to look at the pycharm debugger and I used
> 
> wind_kts = wind_speed.magnitutde
> 
> Just let you know I didn't see this in your document.
> 
> No need to reply, hope not being a pest here, just giving feed back.


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OFO-708651
Department: Support Python
Priority: Low
Status: Open
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