From abc870a9206b78779c8184bb51ec8db78cc945b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George McCabe <23407799+georgemccabe@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 08:44:00 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] per #1787, allow NA instead of only integers for
 climo_mean/stdev hour_interval

---
 metplus/wrappers/command_builder.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/metplus/wrappers/command_builder.py b/metplus/wrappers/command_builder.py
index dc834c840d..4e05afd56e 100755
--- a/metplus/wrappers/command_builder.py
+++ b/metplus/wrappers/command_builder.py
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ def handle_climo_dict(self):
             'time_interp_method': ('string', 'remove_quotes,uppercase'),
             'match_month': ('bool', 'uppercase'),
             'day_interval': ('string', 'remove_quotes,uppercase'),
-            'hour_interval': 'int',
+            'hour_interval': ('string', 'remove_quotes,uppercase'),
             'file_type': ('string', 'remove_quotes'),
         }
         for climo_type in self.climo_types: