ERA5 dataset is three years outdated?

Hi,

I am trying to access ERA5 dataset from Planetary Computer Data Catalog using Python.

https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/dataset/era5-pds

On the page, it says that the temporal extent for this dataset is 01/01/1979 – Present, but if I follow the tutorial on the Example Notebook and change the code to

search = catalog.search(
    collections=["era5-pds"], datetime="2021-01", query={"era5:kind": {"eq": "an"}}
)

for example, the search returns no items.

In fact, in https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/api/stac/v1/collections/era5-pds/items it is clear that the "end_datetime":"2020-12-31T23:00:00Z".

Is this correct?
I am very frustrated with that because the service worked very well for my research, but I need data up to the present.

Thanks for the service, it accesses the data faster than I was expecting.

Best,

Start with the ERA5 dataset page, its Example Notebook, and the STAC collection items endpoint cited in the report. Compare the displayed temporal extent with the API's end_datetime and the Python search for 2021; the issue is done when the catalog metadata and returned items accurately reflect the dataset's available time range.