Lightning is there, but not where you’d expect it lol.
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Agreed, but think about this, we are talking of a basic feature that should be in a sim, which is not correctly implemented. This is 2 years after it’s release! Just waiting for it to be fixed, we would have to spend years with bad stuff.
Stuff under development/progressive updates are for Beta testers, as they can give feedback.
We get releases after releases of features that are not fully/correctly implemented, and then the whole community has to wait for it to be fixed.
Ideally, it should be alpha testers/voluntary beta testers who use the under development features, until they are nearly perfect(nothing can be perfect, I understand). Only then, it should be put to the end-user.
Note that some users just buy the sim for leisure. They shouldn’t have to deal with this.
This message is for Microsoft/Asobo, to understand our pain. This sim is so beautiful, and it can be so amazing! 
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MSFS is so perfect that it actually looks imperfect
its june 6 in juneau ak Im using active weather or live weather by MSFS and for some reason I’m seeing snow on the ground with 56 deg weather and rain. I even pulled a cam of the port of Juneau and the dock is wet not covered in snow. I’m hoping the team from Asobo reads these posts and learns this is not a perfect sim. far from it 56 deg weather and snow on the ground…
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Snow coverage in the sim is awful, the resolution of the map they use to determine coverage is too high. See these thread also and give a vote:
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Remember, as stated by Asobo that weather is an on-going project, after so many complaints on release about it they ‘are’ completely redoing the whole system. So wait to complain until they actually post that they have finished the weather system. Then you can complain.
Complaints, constructive criticism, and corresponding Zendesk tickets should be used as an indicator of how keenly the community feels this issue is affecting them. If we stop talking about it, there is the danger it could slip, and not be seen as a priority when scheduling in what changes make which SU.
On that basis I would advocate the opposite. But it has to be registered in the right way, not a ranting response to a thread.
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Yes you are right, Asobo is constantly working on it and we appreciate their effort. What is really frustrating and source of many complaints here is that at release weather depiction was really realistic and very nice. People were not complaining so much, just requesting for improvements related to winds, turbulence, lightings, temperatures, METAR integration. Unfortunately since SU7 and METAR integration they broke how clouds are depicted and it really breaks the immersion. Why are they trying to rebuild everything (that will take months if not years to be back at level it was) if they originally had a very good weather engine with multi layers, clouds variety, good overcast like IRL and just needed some improvements. Meantime many people stopped playing or are not spending hours as at the beginning because weather looks unrealistic, not challenging, break the immersion for people that are looking more for a simulation than a video game. Some people like me just simply don’t understand why weather regressed so much and no explanations have been officially provided, just suppositions from the users that are interested in that matter since for a flight simulation, weather is really important.
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Now same problem as many updates back!
I set LZPE airport and upper right Icon shows Rain as indication of real weather (also here in reality) but after load of flight - no rain and sunny with few clouds! This is same bug as before! Icon shows correct real weather state but in sim no same!
And I was already wondering why I was getting clear blue everywhere with no mention of it in the forums…
But pay attention to that Real weather Icon upper right at World menu where Departure and Arrival airports you can set. After set your departure airport (like me) that real weather Icon show to me correct expected weather but in sim not same, maybe postponed???
I was explicitly looking for an airport with currently bad weather. Right now, I’m going with a Caravan from Aberdeen to Edinburgh. The ATIS weather I get from Edinburgh is more or less accurate with the METAR I got from allmetsat. However, it seems like only the airport is overlaid by clouds, everything around it is… Charlie weather.
Edit: Just landed, and reactivated ATIS, saying visibility 3 miles in heavy rain, main cloud layer overcast at 1400 ft [METAR: EGPH 081650Z 06011KT 4500 RA OVC002 12/11 Q1002] - and it didn’t quite look like it:
Edit 2: Fired up a weather app and searching for rain anywhere in the world.
Expectation: Rain in North Little Rock
Result: Blue skies.
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It’s really confusing i would say. The example above, where does the weather data we see in the sim comes from?
This is what I got at North Little Rock. No rain but I do have clouds at the metar says storms in the vicinity
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Looks like we’re in trouble again…
Not again… it is like this since SU7 
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I thought meteoblue was the weather source. But it seems like I‘m behind in terms of accuracy here.
But also METAR is the weather source. When should it match what?
Meteoblue is still the source but since SU7, if a METAR exists for an airport, weather engine is supposed to use that METAR information to generate the weather at and around the airport, what creates in many situations like a bubble since Meteoblue data usually differs from METAR one and as a consequence transitions are hard.
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the funny thing is - I had quite positive results just before 
(unexpected) !
EDDL - EDDH
EDDL - METAR (real) - EDDL 081920Z AUTO 21005KT 9999 -SHRA FEW//TCU 15/14 Q1007 NOSIG
Same weather in the SIM - rain, cloudy - rain did not stop as usual either !
then on route - thick clouds up to over 20000 feet
METAR according to EFB in EDDH was CAVOK - but on arrival in the SIM light rain and cloudy, “solid” overcast - after crosschecking WEBCAM and METAR update the SIM was correct - so the weather was correct even before updating METAR ???
Performance good, LIVE traffic a bit delayed but accurate (use the AIG “simobjects”) PF3 (ATC) gave good instructions, even AI Traffic used the right runways 
- was really enjoyable again !