Weather Symbol Objects

Note

Weather Symbol Objects were introduced in Metview 5.14.0, with further development planned for the future

Weather Symbol Objects are a collection of weather symbols and annotations that can be interactively added and edited in the Metview plot window. These objects are projection aware and will survive plot updates such as zooming, changes of projection and contouring.

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At ECMWF you need the latest Metview version to try out the Weather Symbol Objects. The command to run is:

module swap metview/new
metview

From Metview 5.15.0 each Weather Symbol Object is represented by a Metview icon (see the full list of icons here). Using the icons the symbols can be saved from the Metview plot window for later reuse. These icons can also be directly visualised or dragged into the plot window. Plotting from a script (Python or Macro) is possible with some restrictions as described here.