Bug in Stations module

[tomaslg]

Hi,

I was setting a different computer after writing my code (which worked on my previous machine) and found the following issue:

Packages versions:
meteostat-1.6.7
pandas-2.1.3

Within Python 3.11.7 (main, Dec 15 2023, 18:12:31) [GCC 11.2.0] on linux I run:

from meteostat import Stations; Stations().nearby(-33.25531944281872, 150.67298892336152)

Then I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/home/tomas/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/meteostat/interface/stations.py", line 128, in nearby
temp._data = temp._data.sort_values("distance")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/tomas/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py", line 6974, in sort_values
new_data = self._mgr.take(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/tomas/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/managers.py", line 877, in take
return self.reindex_indexer(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/tomas/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/managers.py", line 670, in reindex_indexer
new_blocks = [
^
File "/home/tomas/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/managers.py", line 675, in
fill_value if fill_value is not None else blk.fill_value
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "properties.pyx", line 36, in pandas.libs.properties.CachedProperty.get
File "/home/tomas/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py", line 230, in fill_value
return na_value_for_dtype(self.dtype, compat=False)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/tomas/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pandas/core/dtypes/missing.py", line 670, in na_value_for_dtype
return dtype.na_value
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/tomas/anaconda3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pandas/core/arrays/string.py", line 106, in na_value
if self.storage == "pyarrow_numpy":
^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'StringDtype' object has no attribute 'storage'

I would greatly appreciate if you could help me sort out this problem or fix it in future versions.

Thanks!