wwMaps_LH.py is the main file and calls makeFigs.py to make the plots. uncomment lines for scatter plots if you want those.
wwMaps_LH checks if data files for AK, canada, russia are present for the desired month and runs helper functions to generate them if not.
run like so with desired year/ month - this does it for August 2018: ./wwMaps_LH.py 2018 08
May not work for dates far in the past, I have no idea what the older russia & canada data looks like.