What's Changed
* Fmi geotiff importer fixes by pulkkins in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/284
* Allow Seed et al. weights to become negative by RubenImhoff in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/289
* Cascade scale fix by pulkkins in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/283
* Extrapolation fixes by pulkkins in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/290
* Implement option for saliency-based blending by NathalieRombeek in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/285
* Nowcast refactoring by pulkkins in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/291
* Improve documentation of rainfarm downscaling by dnerini in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/292
Breaking changes
* `pysteps.downscaling.rainfarm` module: the keyword argument `ds_factor` becomes a positional argument without default value (0af3e01e57d22c80c3c41eedea35bc2f0e0a8d75)
Future warnings
* `v1.8.0`: rename input arguments in `pysteps.nowcasting.linda`, `pysteps.nowcasting.sprog`, `pysteps.nowcasting.steps`, `pysteps.nowcasting.sseps` modules (c81c848888c8eab31f1868e352377969718c9316)
New Contributors
* NathalieRombeek made her first contribution in https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/pull/285
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps/compare/v1.6.3...v1.7.0