nexradaws

This module is designed to allow you to query and download Nexrad radar files from Amazon Web Services S3 Storage. The real-time feed and full historical archive of original resolution (Level II) NEXRAD data, from June 1991 to present, is now freely available on Amazon S3 for anyone to use. More information can be found here https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/nexrad/.

nexradaws supports Python 3.8+.

Github - https://github.com/aarande/nexradaws

PyPi - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nexradaws

Docs - http://nexradaws.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Required dependencies

boto3
pytz

Optional dependencies

pyart

Install with pip::

pip install nexradaws
pip install nexradaws[pyart] - to install with pyart support

New in version 2.0:

Updated to support Python 3.8+, dropped support for Python 2.7.
Update to new bucket names for NEXRAD data.
Fix for NoneType when time is in future

New in version 1.1:

Bug fix for varying filename extensions over the years (.gz .V06 etc). Thanks Nick Guy for the PR!

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