Lakes should be frozen/white in winter

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
Flying northern Canada Thunder Bay area and the lakes are not frozen in winter.

ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:
Thunder Bay, Canada, December

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
No mods

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1.Go to Thunder Bay / Northern Canada
2.Look at lake
3.Lake is wet instead of stiff

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:

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

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
4080

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
i9-10850k 64gb ram

MEDIA

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes, but this is not me alone. All northern lakes and rivers that are normally frozen in the winter are not. This goes for northern Europe too.

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But global warming and mild winters might occur and lakes might not be frozen then. Wondering how you can model this in a simulator.

Wouldn’t you also expect the chimneys of houses would be bellowing smoke from heating and fire place ?