grass for meteo representation

I picked up the paper titled "introduction to GRASS 4" by J. WESTERVELT and I
was wandering the following :

Do you, GRASS specialists and users, think that the GRASS package may be
efficiently used as a basis (with necessary enhancements) for the
representation of meteorological charts ?

Meteorological charts combined :

  . isobare lines
  . signs indicating wind, temperature, ...
  . land/sea-lakes limits

Most probably you need to enhance it. Especially if you need to depict
complicated symbols, lines, etc. from a meteorological (standard)
legend. I'm not sure if the combination GRASS-MAPGEN might satisfy
your needs.

Raymond Venneker, Inst. of Earth Sc. Free Univ. Amsterdam.