SynopticPy

Gives you access to real-time and historical surface-based weather and environmental observations for thousands of stations.
https://github.com/blaylockbk/SynopticPy

Category: Sustainable Development
Sub Category: Data Catalogs and Interfaces

Keywords

mesonet mesowest polars python synoptic-api weather

Keywords from Contributors

big-data-program cfgrib ecmwf-data gfs grib grib2 hrrr noaa-data nomads numerical-weather-prediction

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Repository metadata

Retrieve mesonet weather data as Polars DataFrames from Synoptic's Weather API.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/blaylockbk/SynopticPy
• Owner: blaylockbk
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-08-19T02:52:50.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2026-06-03T04:46:15.000Z (18 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-06-11T07:06:11.016Z (10 days ago)
• Topics: mesonet, mesowest, polars, python, synoptic-api, weather
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://synopticpy.readthedocs.io/
• Size: 34.6 MB
• Stars: 73
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 6
• Releases: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Citation: CITATION.cff

README.md

from datetime import timedelta
from synoptic import TimeSeries

df = TimeSeries(
    stid="wbb",
    recent=timedelta(minutes=30)
).df()

uv add SynopticPy

pip install SynopticPy

conda install -c conda-forge synopticpy

Citation (CITATION.cff)

cff-version: 1.2.0
abstract: The Synoptic Weather API gives access to real-time and historical surface-based weather and environmental observations for thousands of stations. SynopticPy is a Python package that provides convenient access to data from the Synoptic API and convert the returned JSON data to a Polars DataFrame. This may be helpful to others who are getting started with the Synoptic API and Python.
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
authors:
  - family-names: Blaylock
    given-names: Brian K.
    email: blaylockbk@gmail.com
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2133-9313"
title: "SynopticPy: Synoptic API for Python"
version: 2024.11.0
date-released: "2024-11-09"
url: "https://synopticpy.readthedocs.io/"
repository-code: "https://github.com/blaylockbk/SynopticPy"
type: software
keywords:
  - meteorology
  - weather
  - atmosphere
license: "MIT"
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.5281/zenodo.4567546

Owner metadata

• Name: Brian Blaylock
• Login: blaylockbk
• Email:
• Kind: user
• Description: Meteorologist
• Website: http://home.chpc.utah.edu/~u0553130/Brian_Blaylock/home.html
• Location: Monterey, CA
• Twitter: blaylockbk
• Company:
• Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6249613?u=83e593317387e0cfacc6d86df40f6d2ee2f13676&v=4
• Repositories: 45
• Last ynced at: 2024-03-15T18:11:46.924Z
• Profile URL: https://github.com/blaylockbk

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• Issue comment event: 13
• Push event: 90
• Create event: 7

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• Fork event: 1
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• Total packages: 1
• Total downloads:
  • pypi: 5,345 last-month
• Total dependent packages: 0
• Total dependent repositories: 1
• Total versions: 11
• Total maintainers: 1

Dependencies

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