This is a :stop_sign: issue :stop_sign: for our users to: - not update their environments dynamically, and always use the `environment.yml` file as environment constraint - and, as the issue title says, **DO NOT** use `netCDF4=1.6.1` or `1.6.2` because those are known to throw SegFaults and unexpected netCDF4/HDF5 I/O issues in conjunction with `iris`, one example of a user hitting this here https://github.com/ESMValGroup/ESMValTool/discussions/2885#discussioncomment-4037640 See `iris` folk talk about it too https://github.com/SciTools/iris/issues/5016