CI failures: April 4 2023

[anissa111]

The release of pandas 2.0.0 seems to have broken a few things on our side

• we should consider adding pandas to upstream testing

[anissa111]

One of our dependencies seems to have pinned to the previous version of pandas, which is why our CI started passing again, I'm going to keep this issue open, as we should still update our package to work with pandas 2.0

[pilotchute]

stack trace can be found
https://github.com/NCAR/geocat-comp/actions/runs/4613451140

[cyschneck]

Currently, pandas is pinned to 1.5.3 as part of xarray<=2023.02.0 in environment.yml as a part of issue #381

xarray 2023.2.0 [required: >=0.18.0]
     ├─ numpy 1.23.5 [required: >=1.21]
     │  └─ dependencies of numpy displayed above
     ├─ packaging 23.1 [required: >=21.3]
     │  └─ dependencies of packaging displayed above
     ├─ pandas 1.5.3 [required: >=1.4,<2a0]
     │  └─ dependencies of pandas displayed above
     └─ python 3.11.5 [required: >=3.9]

[cyschneck]

xarray unpinned as part of #381 (PR: #492) and Upstream-dev CI running against 381 branch completes without error

[cyschneck]

Fixed and closed as part of PR #492. Expanded tests will part of #507 to catch future issues