Polar (Windrose) yticklabel alignment

Question

I have been trying to move the yticklabel without any success so far. No matter what the verticalaligment and horizontalalignment, the location of the yticklabels, in this instance 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 will always be the same.

I want to put it below the horizontal line. Changing the rlabel will rotate the lables, i only want to transform them below the line.

import numpy
from windrose import WindroseAxes
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

rose_angle = [25, 45, 45, 90, 125, 142, 165]
damage = [1, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1.3, 3]
ax = WindroseAxes.from_ax()
viridis = plt.get_cmap('viridis')

ax.bar(rose_angle, damage, normed=False, opening=0.8, edgecolor='white', nsector=36, cmap=viridis, bins=[1., 1.5, 2.01])

ax.set_xticklabels(['90$^0$', '', '0$^0$', '', '', '', '0$^0$', ''])
ax.set_theta_zero_location("N")
ax.set_rlabel_position(270)  # get radial labels away from plotted line
ax.set_legend(labels = ['Tensile Dominant', 'Shear Dominant', 'Mixed Mode'], title="Failure Mode", bbox_to_anchor=(0.005 , 0.95), loc='center')

ax.set_yticks(numpy.arange(0.5, 2, step=0.5))
ax.set_yticklabels(numpy.arange(0.5, 2, step=0.5), verticalalignment='bottom', horizontalalignment='right')

plt.suptitle("Time Step")

plt.show()

verticalaligment = bottom

verticalaligment = top

Answer 1

The alignment of polar gridlabels being ignored is an issue in matplotlib 2.2.2. It has been fixed via https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/10792 and is hence available from matplotlib 2.2.3 on.