Example of Metfcts direct use

Direct usage of Metfcts. Note that Mesan and Metfcts have identical interfaces.

Time listing

To list approved and valid times to

from smhi.metfcts import Metfcts

client = Metfcts()
client.approved_time
# approved time object

client.valid_time
# valid time object

vt = client.valid_time
vt.valid_time
# returns a list of valid datetimes

Notice that approved_time is the time when the Metfcts analysis was updated. On the other hand, valid_time are valid time stamps to fetch data for, see below.

Parameters and geographic area

To list available parameters, geographic area as polygon and points do

from smhi.metfcts import Metfcts

client = Metfcts()

parameters = client.parameters
parameters.parameter
# list of all parameter codes and their meaning

client.parameter_descriptions
# mapping of parameter codes from above and a more descriptive meaning

client.parameter_descriptions[parameters.parameter[0].name]
# descriptive meaning of parameter

geopoly = client.geo_polygon
geopoly.coordinates
# polygon of geographic area as a list

geomultipoint = client.get_geo_multipoint(2)
# all coordinates of value points as a list

where get_geo_multipoint accepts a downsample argument.

Point and multipoint data

To get data, two methods are available. get_point accepts latitude and longitude arguments. get_multipoint accepts validtime, parameter, leveltype, level, geo and downsample arguments. See above to acquire a valid time and parameter.

Note that the date input can be in either str or datetime formats. The API expects times in UTC but the client expects the user to input local datetimes. The local datetimes are converted to UTC before an API request is performed.

from smhi.metfcts import Metfcts

client = Metfcts()

point = client.get_point(58, 16)
point.df
# dataframe of actual data

point.df_info
# dataframe with information about available parameters

multipoint = client.get_multipoint(
    "2024-04-1206T16:00:00Z", "t", "hl", 2, 2
)

Note that, the above valid time is outdated.