Another inconsistency of the weather situation with METAR. This time at the PACD airport. For 2 weeks it has been there around 10 degrees and the ground cover is snow like in Antarctica. When I change the weather to manual, the snow automatically disappears. Fix this bug.
Sadest thing is, the sim is actually capable of an sky like that, it’s just an issue, but Asobo seems to ignore all this.
Before SU7 this was quite normal. So the sim and the live weather can do that.
Asobo has unfortunately completely shredded the weather system with the update. Almost 1 year ago, since then there hasn’t been the slightest improvement. It is not even discussed or said that it is being worked on. Not a good sign, but I hope so too.
but it’s very rare to see those clouds unfortunately
That’s quite an exception and not the norm. I haven’t seen anything like that in 1 whole year. Before su7 it was very common to enjoy quite accurate and visually beautiful skies. That’s no longer the case 99% of the time. And Asobo seems to just ignore this.
The best chance to see such clouds is during early morning Zulu time.
Weather like pre su7 before 8 AM UK time, photos and videos provided!
Yeah, I’m aware of that issue too. Anyway, I think there is also a problem with the way the sim manages the opacity of the clouds. Take a look here:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/live-weather-clouds-density-opacity-always-zero/544158?u=usamor
Many times, when watching the fuzzy cumulous we have been “enjoying” the last year, I can’t help it and think that if they were more dense, the cloudscapes would look so much better. So maybe that’s the issue. Weather inaccuracies aside.
i wanna cry when i see these kinds of videos
Halcyon times, for sure. Then it was all tragically ripped away from us, sacrificed on <insert_altar_here>. But its coming back, slowly.
Oh yes. The glory days of MSFS before all the Sim Downgrades.
Live now at LPPR (clouds and rain):
Live now at FS20 “live weather” at LPPR:
But on satellite rather clear … and “licht bewolkt” = light clouds 45 mins ago on the weather report.
Metar does not show overcast either
Hello,
I can say nothing special, you can have some delay. Today I’ve monitored heavily METARs and went to airports around Europe and discovered very good realism, yes, sometimes some delay was there but that was cca 20 min what I expect as ok. Munich was as my test also and there was differently, on Munich real METAR - rain and on other (also my used) web sites about weather - cloud formation arrives with rain. Sim? Rain 
Many METARs infos reported update cca half hour before, as I started to check them. I can say that from my discoverings till today from SU10 release, weather is really very good. What is also perfect, is very good also to my home airport IRL, if I look outside window it’s very real. What can I say? Our LZPE doesn’t have METAR so I’m satisfied. I’ll do tests in next days without problems.
Has ben said numerous times in this forum: we can either have a weather system in MSFS sometimes out of phase with real world but otherwise consistent and realistic, or we can have it matching METAR literally causing sore thumbs like sudden redraws and shifts, manufactured gusts, etc.
“Blending” which appears to be the magical solution cannot overcome the difficulties in assimilating observations into a weather model where all variables are related through a system of equations.
I hadn’t tried the Rex Weather addon in ages, and fancied making some comparison shots. Here is Portland with sim default live weather:
And unfortunately Rex crashed my sim, just like it did yesterday. Still, live weather looks good today.
Upgraded Rex, and it now doesn’t crash.
Looks pretty close to me. The main difference I see is more uniformity in Rex. You can see that when you adjust the time of day, and the sun is never fully obscured, unless you are looking edge on through the clouds. With sim-default live weather the sun is variably obscured.
Let’s see what it looks like up top.
Here is Rex again.
And here is Asobo live weather. Clearly some altitude differences here:
There is much more variation here, which can also be seen from the ground.
Just landed in Grenada, the World Map page said 265 @ 5, Meteoblue says ENE @12-17! Slight difference there. Not only that, I started cold and dark at the airport, the GNS530 in the sim had my flight track taking off to the west, into this supposed 265 degree wind.
Overcast at 900ft, erm no. Weather is still bad. METARs in SU7 have made weather depiction worse and weather doesn’t even match them anyway. What was the purpose of the change in weather system in SU7 can someone enlighten me?
Also just look at the clouds, this is ULTRA!! To me looks even worse than I would expect to see on LOW settings. Just terrible.
