Can MetPy draw the tropical cyclone symbol ?

[wqshen]

When i use MetPy, i found that it can draw some station weather symbol which is amazing. i want know if it can draw the tropical cyclone symbol ?

[dopplershift]

We don't currently, but I think it would be appropriate for MetPy to do so. We pulled all of the symbols we have from the OGC Met-Ocean working group's SVG images, and they have some symbols for tropical cyclones.

I'm not really in love with those, though--do you know where we might find some simple SVG we could use? Or maybe create a couple yourself? We could incorporate those SVGs into the icon font we use in MetPy.

[SnoopJ]

Looking at the Wikimedia Commons, there are two public domain options that look pretty suitable/good to me.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tropical_Storm_north.svg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tropical_Storm_south.svg

[dopplershift]

Interesting, that's a much better place to start. Thanks for the pointer!

[dopplershift]

For completeness, this should include the hurricane symbol.

[dopplershift]

This might be a useful way to attack it: https://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/scatter_star_poly.html

[Kushalkr]

I was revisiting the issue of generating custom markers for the hurricane symbol on Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44726675/custom-markers-using-python-matplotlib. I recently came across this package: https://pypi.org/project/tcmarkers/ which seems to be aligned with the SVG approach that is being considered here.