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@ksgwxfan ksgwxfan released this 02 Jul 05:07
v2.3.0.1
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hurdat2parser v2.3x is major release/update.

  • Hurdat2 tweaks
    • online retrieval now attempts to download to a local file.
      • IMPORTANT! Versions < 2.3 are not guaranteed to see the newest hurdat2 releases due to url-name structure change and too-strict regex code (my fault).
    • Call/Retrieval improvements
      • Attribute-like access to individual cyclones
        • named cyclones (ex: atl.hugo, atl.rita, etc).
          • This will return the most recent cyclone assigned a particular name. This guarantees that most-notorious cyclones with retired names will be returned
        • Assigned ATCFID's (a basin prefix, cyclone number, and the season) ... (ex: atl.al171995 or atl.AL171995)
      • recognizance of interchangeable order of season and cyclone number (atl[1995,17] or atl[17,1995] return the same TropicalCyclone. In addition, ATCF-ids without the basin prefix are recognized (atl[171995] or atl[199517])
    • added random() method that returns a random TropicalCyclone object.
    • uniform rank_seasons() that allows part-season ranking
      • added method keyword that allows one to choose the desired ranking method. The options are D for dense rankings (default) (1,2,2,3) or C for competition-based ranking (1,2,2,4).
      • deprecated rank_seasons_thru() method.
    • uniform _season_stats handler/wrapper method that supports printing to console or as str.
      • deprecated _season_stats_str method
    • added from_map method that uses matplotlib to draw polylines, returning them as tupled coordinates.
      • added coastline coordinate constants
        • Click Here for a list of included coastlines.
      • the purpose for these are to be used with the <TropicalCyclone>.crosses method (also new this version).
  • Season tweaks
    • updated stats() method to now report densely-based and competition-based rankings.
  • TropicalCyclone tweaks
    • added vector info and saffir-simpson ratings to .summary()
    • added crosses method that allows comparing a system's track to a coordinate list to see if it crossed the path. Click Here for a guide on how to use.
    • removed/changed verbiage where I erroneously had indicated 50kt winds as "gale force".
    • .info() temporal data are now status-based
    • track_map() tweaks and improvements
      • legend is no longer draggable by default. See keyword below
      • removed auto-resizing that inadvertently required tkinter in previous versions.
      • tweaked placement of NaturalEarth accreditation
      • added keyboard shortcuts for Zooming (SHIFT + arrows) and Panning (CTRL + arrows) and toggle of legend (N)
      • temporal labels no longer inadvertently alter the size of the Axes when panning.
      • added some interaction. Clicking on a segment will reveal some basic TCRecordEntry (segment) information in the lower left corner of the display (may be buggy. Try toggling the maximize screen option and see if it appears).
      • default behavior more-so mimics the matplotlib (mpl) defaults
      • small visual improvements including default map extent, sub-tropical cyclone discrimination on map and legend, and bolder tracks for major hurricanes, and Natural Earth map citation
      • higher resolution maps
      • new supported keywords
        • removed aspect_ratio kw
        • added width, height; these are used in the figsize keyword when creating the figure.
        • added dpi, and block. These mimic their mpl counterparts
        • added draggable kw that indicates if the displayed legend should be able to be interacted with.
        • added extents kw that can show generalized quadrant-based TS, 50kt, and Hurricane force wind extents. As of the most recent hurdat2 release, this is only available for cyclones >= 2004.
        • added padding kw to allow modification of the default focal scope on the track itself. The higher this number, the more "zoomed-out" it will appear.
        • added saveonly kw that saves an image locally instead of showing the plot on screen. This also respects the aforementioned width, height, and dpi kw's
        • added backend to allow the user to dictate which mpl backend to use
  • TCRecordEntry tweaks
    • formalized entrytimes as UTC/Zulu timezone (won't change calculated stats any)
    • added category property as an alias for saffir_simpson
  • made small tweaks to Saffir-simpson scale to reflect data from . Some of the scale I had was off by one or two knots. As reported data is rounded to the nearest 20th (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, etc), the tweaks are inconsequential.
  • added gis keyword to _calculations.haversine. This allows the use of coordinates in (lon, lat) format (True; common in GIS programs) or (lat, lon) (False; default). In future releases, I may go to the (lon, lat) format as default and uniform throughout.
  • hurdat2() methods made uniform by returning a string. You can optionally use the original line from the database instead of the default of objectively-formed wind-extent data.
  • inclusion of BoundingBox and Coordinate classes in _gis module. These are what enable functionality to the from_map and crosses methods.
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