British Columbia's ventilation index alert system is used by citizens to know whether or not they are allowed to perform controlled burns in various regions of the province. Previously this data was sourced from Environment Canada's ECCC Datamart where they post daily bulletins with forecast values. Recently, Environment Canada has started publishing this data in much higher resolution in the World Meteorological Organization's standard General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form format (GRIB). This project is a first step towards modernizing British Columbia's capabilities by reading the GRIB data and reproducing the original bulletin so that our systems can continue to operate. It will allow us to produce more, and more highly detailed data in the future.
Manual intervention should not be needed because the application will run every
10 minutes, and abort if there exists a report for the day. However, if
necessary, but application can be triggered by manually starting the
run_application github workflow.
- uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) for python version and dependency management.
- ruff (comes bundled with uv), run
uvx ruff check, or better yet, install the editor extension and let it do all the work.
To set your environment up for development run uv sync --all-extras --dev to
automatically deploy a python virtual environment. This includes the ruff
formatter. To run the application run uv run main.py.