Step 5: Visualize Model Outputs#

These steps assume you already have the application running on a Raspberry Pi or local computer running. Running WRF in step 3.3 above outputs different weather graphs/visuals (approximately 7000!) and stores them in the ~/../pi-wrf/Output directory.

You can list the output file names using the terminal command ls (this is already entered in the notebook).

../_images/model_output.png

Finally, to visualize any plot of interest, use the image library and the file name as shown in the code block below:

Image(filename='name-of-file.png')
Image library function example

In this lesson, I will be visualizing the hourly temperature plots since I already decided that I was going to tell my weather story using temperature forecasts. However, I included a variety of outputs here to provide some clues about the various weather plots WRF can provide.

Sample Outputs:

temperature forecast for hour 1 and 4 selected rain and windspeed output