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import netCDF4

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%%timeit
url='http://geoport.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/coawst_4/use/fmrc/coawst_4_use_best.ncd'
nc = netCDF4.Dataset(url)
t = nc.variables['temp']
lon = nc.variables['lon_rho']
lat = nc.variables['lat_rho']
pcolormesh(lon[:],lat[:],t[-1,-1,:,:],vmin=10,vmax=30);


1 loops, best of 3: 2.97 s per loop
/home/usgs/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/colors.py:576: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in less
  cbook._putmask(xa, xa < 0.0, -1)

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