Circular holes in the snow coverage (world map)

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

On the world map, both in career mode and in free flight, circular holes can be seen in the “white” areas during winter.

This bug is specific to FS2024 and different from those related to snow cover and previously reported here: Snow Coverage still not right

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Always.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

  1. Make sure the current season is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and that the weather is set to “live”.

  2. Just look at the regions of Canada, or Siberia on the map.
    There is circular areas not covered by “white”:

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Important notes

It’s noticeable that these zones have the same surface area (150 km radius) as the discoveries made in career mode.

So, they also appear to be centered around an airport (or a weather station) and has a radius of influence of 150 km.

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Investigations

Although several holes exist, one is particularly noteworthy and could help in understanding this bug. In Canada, there is one centered on Ennadai. Here, there is no longer an airport, but an operational weather station still remains.

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In FS2024, no airport is coded at this location, but it appears that weather data is still being retrieved. May be this cause a conflict and ignoring the weather data.

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The weather datas for this station are public and can be viewed here.

Temperature: -29.2°C
Dew point: -32.5°C
Humidity: 73%

Quite sure there is snow here ! :snowflake:

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This has been discussed in this thread.

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But unfortunately, not reported as BUG ! :roll_eyes:
So no chance to get a correction.

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Good point - can’t remember if it’s also reported as such elsewhere, but you’re right that it’s not in that thread.

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Cn replicate:

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One bit of advice for everybody:

Cloud coverage on the world map can somewhat obscure snow coverage. To eliminate that, press the layer button on the bottom right, press the “advanced” button and turn all weather layers to “off.” This will remove the clouds and leave the satellite pic with the current in-sim snow coverage.

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You can’t log into the game without seeing them. I’ve been wondering how long till they’d notice them and finally google searched to find out the reason. Guess we don’t know.

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