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[python #KPO-566084]: Unable to plot SKEW-T in google CoLabs

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  • Subject: [python #KPO-566084]: Unable to plot SKEW-T in google CoLabs
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 10:31:08 -0600
Greetings!

This is most likely because Colab is running an older version of Matplotlib. 
MetPy 1.2.0 requires Matplotlib >=3.3 (this *should* have been taken care of 
when installing MetPy, but clearly it didn't). You can check your version of 
matplotlib with either:

  %pip list matplotlib

or

  import matplotlib
  print matplotlib.__version__

Regardless, the solution is to either roll back to an older MetPy release (like 
1.1.0) or upgrade matplotlib with:

  %pip install --upgrade matplotlib>=3.3

Hope this helps!

Ryan

> Package Version: 1.2.0
> Operating System: Google CoLabs via Windows 11/Chrome
> Hardware:
> Description of problem: Attempting to plot SKEW-T of archived sounding data 
> from UWYO server using metpy. When attempting to create Skew T figure metpy 
> raises an error claiming the positional argument label is missing. Attempting 
> to add a label leads to the system not recognizing the argument and raising 
> another error. This only occurs in google colabs. This was not an issue in 
> jupyter notebook only in google colabs.


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: KPO-566084
Department: Support Python
Priority: Low
Status: Closed
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