December24 - Live weather injection bug MSFS2024 - data issue?

[utd4life12]

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: I’ve tried multiple airports across the UK today and the live weather is not working correctly, the cloud cover is almost always missing at airports either reporting it by METAR or even where the Meteoblue forecast dictates there should be cloud.

As you can see the whole of England is pretty much shrouded in thick cloud today

I can confirm Live weather enabled and there is the odd few clouds, but it is incorrect.

Provide specific location or coordinates:

EGNM - Leeds Bradford
EGNM 100920Z 06009KT 030V110 9999 BKN025 05/00 Q1038

EGCC - Manchester
EGCC 100920Z AUTO 04013KT 9999 OVC027 06/01 Q1038

EGNX - East Midlands
EGNX 100920Z 03012KT 9999 FEW018 BKN027 06/03 Q1036

Provide time and date of the observed weather issue:
10th December 2024 0900z onwards

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

Every time

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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1. Load up at airport in England with Live weather, e.g. EGCC, EGNM, EGNX
2. Observe cloud cover/live weather is incorrect and missing
3. Happens every time

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[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No.

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MEDIA

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[utd4life12]

Update:

If you load up at EGKK airport, you can see the hard line in the cloud cover where it stops rendering the cloud. This was not after a period of flying but visible on immediate load into the airport.

EGKK:

Also visible on the world map:

[utd4life12]

I was able to use the historical weather feature to help pinpoint when the cloud cover becomes bugged.

At 0832UTC it was still working ok

Then by 0846UTC you can see it is bugged

[utd4life12]

Also visible in France if you load up at LFOV airport, which should also be cloudy.

You can see the clear cut off where the clouds stop injecting

Same as above using historical time, it works ok when testing before 08:30 - 0845UTC or around that time then it stops working correctly again

0804 UTC

0836 UTC

[SealedVolcano50]

I can confirm this, Belfast today was overcast, and in sim it was clear!

[utd4life12]

Still happening today, 11th December.

You can see on the world map the big square shape of cloud missing over England and indeed the local conditions with live weather enabled, such as EGKK, are not correct.

[SquarishNest282]

Samer here.
EHBK all day clear skies