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Xarray does not appear to be able to open netCDF from a url without a THREADS serve

This is not a limitation of xarray per se, but of the netcdf4-python library itself.

You can, however, get around this limitation by using fsspec.

```python import xarray as xr from fsspec.implementations.http import HTTPFileSystem

your Azure URL is not publicly accessible, so I used another one

url = 'https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~rpa/NOAA_NCDC_ERSST_v3b_SST.nc' fs = HTTPFileSystem() fobj = fs.open(url) ds = xr.open_dataset(fobj) ds ```

This will not be very performant, but it will work.

 
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