Peak Wind Values from METAR

[wxbinge]

Hello,

I wondered if there is a way to get the peak wind information from METAR files using MetPy?

I was looking at the current metar.py script in the io directory, and these are the variables I see that can be parsed:

Configure the named tuple used for storing METAR data
Metar = namedtuple('metar', ['station_id', 'latitude', 'longitude', 'elevation', 'date_time',
'wind_direction', 'wind_speed', 'wind_gust', 'visibility',
'current_wx1', 'current_wx2', 'current_wx3', 'skyc1', 'skylev1',
'skyc2', 'skylev2', 'skyc3', 'skylev3', 'skyc4', 'skylev4',
'cloudcover', 'temperature', 'dewpoint', 'altimeter',
'current_wx1_symbol', 'current_wx2_symbol', 'current_wx3_symbol',
'remarks'])

However, some stations report peak wind, and I would like to get that information.

KPAE 190249Z 20014G22KT 10SM OVC014 06/03 A2962 RMK AO2 PK WND 22029/0233 RAE04 P0000

Is there a way to do that with MetPy? I am using version 1.2.

[dopplershift]

Right now you'll have to parse the remarks field yourself to get that information. Thus far we have (somewhat intentionally) avoiding parsing the remarks section since it can be so problematic (with poorly formed reports).

I've opened this as a feature request, though no idea when it might be done without a community contribution.

[wxbinge]

Thanks, @dopplershift.

I will parse the remarks field. I didn't think to look in there.