hdobs.to_pickle¶

hdobs.to_pickle(filename)[source]¶

Save HDOB data (Pandas dataframe) to a pickle file.

Parameters: filename (str) – name of file to save pickle file to.

Notes

This method saves the HDOBs data as a pickle within the current working directory, given a filename as an argument.

For example, assume hdobs was retrieved from a Storm object (using the first method described in the hdobs class documentation). The HDOBs data would be saved to a pickle file as follows:

>>> storm.recon.hdobs.to_pickle("mystorm_hdobs.pickle")

Now the HDOBs data is saved locally, and next time recon data for this storm needs to be analyzed, this allows to bypass re-reading the HDOBs data from the NHC server by providing the pickle file as an argument:

>>> storm.recon.get_hdobs("mystorm_hdobs.pickle")