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Overlay IEM NEXRAD composite on Cartopy
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iem_nexrad_wms_cartopy.py
""" Overlay IEM NEXRAD composite on Cartopy for any date or time in the
long-running IEM archive. This works for any target projection, with the
reprojection handled by the Cartopy WMS functionality.
If you don't enter a time on an even 5 min boundary, you will get a blank map.
"""
iem_wms_nexrad = 'https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r-t.cgi?'
layers = ["nexrad-n0r-wmst"]
wms_kw = {"time":"2017-10-22T05:15:00Z", "transparent":'true'}
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection=ccrs.InterruptedGoodeHomolosine())
ax.coastlines()
ax.add_wms(iem_wms_nexrad, layers, wms_kwargs=wms_kw)
plt.show()
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