WMLABW(3NCARG)

💖 WMLABW — the weather-label glow-up 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the WMLABW page, from the NCAR GRAPHICS manual (section 3NCARG, she's a library function, very demure, very Fortran-coded). this one's short and sweet and it's literally just: you give her a spot on the map, you give her a word, she puts the word there. slay.

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✨ NAME ✨

WMLABW — plots weather map regional weather labels (like "HOT", "BREEZY", "COLD", etc.

not me noticing the original is missing a closing paren 😭 we keep it exactly as she is, no editing, she's iconic that way 💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

CALL WMLABW (X, Y, LABEL)

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🦋 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🦋

yes bestie there's a C version too, we're inclusive in this house 🫶

#include <ncarg/gks.h>

void c_wmlabw(float x, float y, char *label)

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

here's the tea on the three things you gotta hand her:

• X (Real, Input) — an X coordinate, specified in world coordinates, of a point that specifies the center of the label in LABEL. it's giving "this is where the vibe lives."
• Y (Real, Input) — a Y coordinate, also in world coordinates, of a point that specifies the center of the label in LABEL. X's partner in crime, main character duo fr fr.
• LABEL (Character, Input) — a character variable that contains the desired label. so like, the actual word. "HOT". "BREEZY". whatever you're feeling. 🌸

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

lowkey the important part: set the values for the appropriate internal parameters before calling WMLABW, or else you're not gonna get the label you actually wanted. the internal parameters that control the appearance of the labels are:

• RC1
• RC2
• RC3
• RC4
• RC5
• WHT

that's the whole list, bestie. those six little icons run the whole look. ✨

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🔥 ACCESS 🔥

to use WMLABW or c_wmlabw, load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c — preferably in that order. order matters, don't be chaotic about it. ⭐

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Online: wmap, wmdflt, wmgetc, wmgeti, wmgetr, wmlabs, wmsetc, wmseti, wmsetr, wmap_params

Hardcopy: WMAP - A Package for Producing Daily Weather Maps and Plotting Station Model Data

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

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and that's the whole page, no notes. this came out of the UNIX manual, dated January 1995, filed under WMLABW(3NCARG) — yes she's vintage and yes she still ate. periodt. 💅✨