ok, well as we are saying in other places, it’s very inconsistent even when the METAR matches with meteoblue… I posted some photos in the bug section today. I tried 4 airport and all of them were an absolute mess with the so called stadium of towering clouds around the airport…and also extreme convection even away from the METAR, like here in Ireland…convection doesn’t exist this time of the year, even in summer time is not frequent!
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Yes men, i did not see overcast in this simulator… i have tested at 5 airports… no ovc clouds…
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Anyone fly out of kpvd this morning who would like to confirm or dispute my clouds? Otherwise I might head over to Vegas and see if Rick Harrison has a cloud guy.
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Yes, overall, it looks like the clouds are a little more realistic. But it’s not night and day either. And above all, we only see cumuliform clouds!
There is still a serious lack of stratiform clouds: where are the strato-cumulus? the nimbo-stratus? the cirro-stratus? the altostratus?
Even when the sky is normally completely overcast, there are gaps in which we see big Cu’s bubbling up. We realise that ALL the clouds in the simulator are formed from cumulus clouds.
In our temperate (and cold) climate, in autumn and winter, the almost exclusive cloud type is stratiform. So in this season, these omnipresent cumuliform clouds ruin the immersion a lot.
Before looking at a current weather, I think it would be much better to create realistic and really diversified clouds. Once this is done, then yes, it might be appropriate (if possible) to have realistic and current weather as well.
This game is a simulation, and the sky (and its clouds) is what we fly in. It is what we see and observe the most. So I think that, apart from the flight simulator itself, the closest thing to reality that should be copied is the sky and its clouds!
Please, Asobo, even if I think this message will get lost among thousands of others, try to do something about it. We know you are more than capable of doing it, given all the feats you have done.
Thank you!
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it is very strange… Done my flight back from LOWI to EDDL and the clouds seem to reverted back to beta build. cumulus towering clouds everywhere…looking very unrealistic … My first flight to Innsbruck was so immersive and reminded me to prior builds where I often just sit in the cockpit at 30000 feet and thought like “wow can’t believe my eyes”. I don`t know what is going on , hope Asobo does.
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I agree 100% we have been trying to say the same things for almost two months ^^
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We observed this frequently in the BETA build and the now release build, it’s like it switches between two different weather systems.
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I would say the clouds are less bad now. To say they’re good is a stretch. Better, yes, but way worse then pre-SU7.
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Where does this mentality come from, that cumulus clouds don’t happen in the winter? Towering Cu and convective precip is common in the winter, especially in regions with marine or terrain influence, and very especially with both.
In the US, anyone in the upper midwest knows what lake effect snow bands look like. Anyone in the Pacific northwest knows what happens when a marine airmass advects into high terrain. Much of the intermountain west sees this too, so while I’m not sure where his screenshot are, the terrain makes these clouds entirely plausible.
Convection doesn’t require air that you’d consider hot or humid. It just needs some moisture and a lifting action with some instability aloft.
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What is wrong with you? You may want to seek help for that.
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I’m in upstate New York and we had lake effect snow squalls this afternoon off of Lake Erie which were very convective. The tops were between 10,000 and 15,000 feet. The air temperature was 19F (-7 C)
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My 2 cents:
In VR, the clouds (and weather in general) are absolutely amazing now, at least in my humble opinion. Even with small bugs lingering here and there, I am enjoying the sim very much lately…
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What you say is right for some places like the US where indeed there is a lot of contrasts. But in the UK, especially Ireland which has a cool maritime climate, any convection in winter is pretty much nonexistent, we can get small cumulus under strong cold waves, if the Atlantic Ocean is mild enough to create them. Other than that in winter here it’s usually stratus clouds. For the reasons I just mentioned even in summer time in Ireland thunderstorms are rare or weak.
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no soft cloud transition on the approach to eddh rwy23 today, the change of clouds came immediately
I was commenting on whoever said the clouds in the earlier screenshot over the mountains weren’t realistic in winter. They surely are.
Your screenshots are definitely the overdone, too-rigid towering cu the sim likes to generate sometimes - though those times do seem to be becoming less common. For a while there, that was the only type of cumulus that existed, but it’s not like that anymore, as evidenced by most of the other screenshots in this thread alone. They ARE getting better at this; it’s understandable that it’s a process.
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I agree I see a massive improvement aswell
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After this update I observe great live weather depiction in Europe, but still these rather meaningless, ground-touching cumulus clouds in more tropical places. Changi airport in Singapore or Phuket Thailand, or other places in PNG. They basically look the same.
The weather behaves differently depending on where I fly.