ShapeReader | A PHP library to parse ESRI Shape files

I am working with the NDFD forecast datasets and would like to assign lat and long within the array to give me the ability to plot the data outside of matplotlib. My versions are:

python 3.8,metpy 1.0.0,cartopy 0.18.0, xarray 0.16.2, siphon 0.8.0

I have this df:

I have a plotted map with station locations (from a CSV) but I am finding it difficult to add text to the points using their station name referred to as "STATIONS" in the first column of the CSV file attached. Below is the code compiled so far. Thanks.

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I have successfully created a map (country boundary and coastline) from natural earth site but I am finding it difficult to plot the longitude and latitude coordinates of weather some stations to the map. The longitude and latitude coordinates are the CSV file attached.

Below the is code compiled so far and the map generated:

I have a figure with 3 subplots, two of which share a colorbar and the third has has it's own colorbar.

I would like the colorbars to align with the vertical limits of their respective plots, and for the top two plots to have the same vertical limits.

Googling, I have found ways to do this with a single plot, but am stuck trying to make it work for my fig. My figure currently looks like this:

The code for which is as follows:

I'm plotting world map-data at a country level, using the geometries provided in the Cartopy shapereader natural earth records:

I am using the following code to make a map for Sweden, Norway and Finland together as one area. however, I am struggling with it. I'm following this example, Python Mapping in Matplotlib Cartopy Color One Country.

I create a Stamen terrain map with the country border from NaturalEarth. Now I want to remove all the data (terrain in this case) from outside the country border. How would I do that?

My example with the terrain visible inside and outside of Switzerland:

Is there a way to fill a country with an image similar to R solution using custom library here:

I have a solution where the face colour is filled for instance the below where Italy is blue. However, I would like to add the Italian flag. Is there a way in Python (I have not found much after searching) or is something like QGIS needed: