Tried to intercept a line of severe thunderstorms on the Mississippi this evening. I was disappointed to see only scattered fair weather cumulus:
But then the fair weather cu started shooting lightning bolts:
So at least the simulator made an attempt at storms and building cloud cover where they actually and currently are, but yeah, it came up a little short on the sky conditions: no rain, no overcast, and no real depth to the clouds. Let alone severe winds and turbulence.
I don’t expect the simulator to get the individual thunderstorm cells, especially in more subtle environments where they’re rather random. But this was a large extratropical cyclone and frontal system that was handled well by forecast models, so I think it could have done better than this.