I’m in the beta as well but the issue still persists. Seb said the live weather team would be working on a fix but I haven’t seen anything in the release notes related to it so far. Is this going to be a server side fix? SU15 is about to drop and 2024 will be out before anything else drops anyway.
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There’s no difference in the clouds with SU15. They still look very poor and unrealistic a lot of the time in terms of colour, density, shape, and resolution.
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Wait, they claim to have a full “live weather team”!? The same “team” that couldn’t, in more than one full year (probably a lot more) bring back lightnings and thuders!?
We’re in good hands then.
Not surprised though, it’s been now more than 3 months that the simulator won’t start in full screen as it used by default. Must be very very very hard to fix that too. They should build a team to investigate that too, then add it to the infinite list of bugs and whatsoever that they’re “investigating” since day one. OR, considering FS2020 sold more than ten million copies around the world, they could give us a NEW simulator, not based on a version more than 10 years old. Imagine how many teams they’d need to do that though. 
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That’s already been fixed for a while in SU15 beta.
I asked about the issue for the upcoming Q&A stream. You guys should do the same
Am I the only one who lost rain from outside view with latest SU15? Rain visible from the cockpit, both on windshield and scenery, but when switching to external view, no sound, no raindrops, seemingly no wet terrain.
External rain went long before SU15! Now to see it, you have to have the landing lights on and then you can only see the rain which is illuminated by the lights. Such a sorry state of affairs. We will never know if it was a mistake or by design.
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I really reallyyy wanna see better cloud variety and as they are in a specific region. I mostly see candy floss or freshly microwaved popcorn looking clouds everywhere in the world with a few thin glacier like sheets inserted in between for good measure.
The clouds, weather, rain and storm effects really need to be taken to the next level. And NO I don’t want that in 2024 I want that in MSFS20!
Also, the rain never seems to be interacting with anything other than the ground? So, it never interacts with planes in external cam or the houses and buildings when you’re hovering around in drone cam… why is that?
Also, cities, roads, streets, houses, buildings, runways, taxiways need to look like they’re really drenched in rain. they don’t.
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flying through cloud effects have now been added by SIMFX for the a320
see here
credit to mike collins
This isn’t a fix unfortunately. It is a fake effect thrown in the screen that doesn’t look natural. We can’t get the kind of mesh densities near the airplane bounding box unless there’s a change in the way clouds are rendered into the sim.
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It was possible before
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Before SU7 feeling 
It hurts so much every time I see what beautiful things they have destroyed. 
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imagine the new lighting of the atmosphere with these clouds…
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in my opinion it is still much better than no effect
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couple more recent examples…
wing fade, condensation, tip vortices, etc
getting the interior lighting changes when flying through fog/clouds would be great as well - it’s very noticeable in the aircraft ( acts light a giant softbox )
A320 ceo landing in FRA - with the usual weather
747-8 takeoff from SFO - with the usual fog…
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Very nice example from SFO. The stratus cloud is perhaps 200 m thick yet completely opaque. At the base it just takes a few seconds until one is fully embedded. Something must fundamentally change in MSFS because even the manual clouds with the density of 5 don’t come close to this.
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Asobo, if you are reading this, please do something about this! Fix the live weather depiction of clouds.
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Real life
Live Weather
Preset
Clouds have very undefined, unclear edges…
…when they should be very distinct.
Bottom line: something in the Live Weather seems to have set every cloud type to 0 density, and that’s why we see translucent clouds at high altitudes and fuzzy cumulus clouds at lower altitudes. The popcorn clouds need to go too. I have also noticed there is never humidity depicted in Live Weather. I would love to see that fixed.
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Throw in visibility controls too!
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