Live weather down for me, no winds at FL 380
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Probably. This might not be the topic for this, but just for comparison here’s yesterdays overcast and november greyness with metar-weather
and today without metar.
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It’s down for me too! Should we start a new thread? I’m not sure this is going to be noticed in here!?
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+1 I let you do it! ^^
Here it is. Let the voting begin;
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/live-weather-down-november-10th-2023/616162?u=piperdriver0624
Overcast depiction was pretty much always perfect pre-SU5. Now it rarely is fully overcast.
I did start a topic on it a long time ago: Sim now seems incapable of rendering overcast consistently or accurately using live weather
If it was up to me they would ditch this Metar injection altogether and go back to metoeblue weather. It was much more realistic.
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Just did a flight from Jakarta (WIII) to WMKK and weather was spot on. Now WMKK Kuala Lumpur to Auckland NZAA) partly cloudy and lightning no precipitation.
I spent the last couple of hours flying round south-west England again - IRL it’s raining over most of it, and in the sim it’s raining over most of it, but again - in the sim the rain is rendering as fog. The entire region is fogged out. All I have to do is look out a window to see how blatantly untrue that is.
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Another example that the sim weather doesnt match at all with the real weather…example today EDXW…you see on the screenshot snow all over…in the sim everything is green…
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An example of “overcast” today… doesn’t match my understanding of overcast which is 8/8ths sky coverage.
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Indeed overcast is almost bugged
Clouds are coming from Meteoblue forecast not from METARs, so what was showing the MB forecast for cloud coverage map at that time ?. I think too late for this time but when reporting an issue with clouds, we should always add the screenshot of the MB cloud coverage map that is the source.
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It’s not the best weather in the Netherlands, but
- it’s way too dark, looks like the time is an hour of so off.
- it’s grey in real life and in the sim it looks like the sun is somewhere shining around the darkness, otherwise i cannot explain the orange
real time and live weather on settings
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Weather all over mid wales right now is meant to be rain, but cloudbase sea level where it’s raining again. Rain does not mean vis 100m. Does match meteoblue’s low cloud probability - does not match weather radar or particularily match the cloud cover map because there’s no cloudbase lower than 400m atm - but there’s some real problems translating that into sim weather, it’s just the areas of rain that are showing up as fog.
For what its worth I’ve been giving Rex Weatherforce another go now that frame gen is available. This has nearly eliminated the sever stuttering during weather updates. From an accuracy standpoint Rex seems to be much better than default, at least from a subjective viewpoint.
If, like me you put Rex on a shelf years ago, you might want to give it another look if you are using frame gen.
As of time of posting, EGTE METAR - EGTE 011720Z 18015KT 8000 RA SCT014 BKN019 11/10 Q0994
In-game:
That is not 8km vis, or 1400ft cloudbase. Unfortunately the Meteoblue maps are showing 200-400m cloudbase ( can we at least have the game use the higher of the two? but that isn’t 650ft cloudbase either ) but the vis is what really matters. And it’s dark in Exeter right now too. It is raining in the area.
I think it is too late, but it will be good to also include a screenshot of the insim METAR to make sure it is injected over the Meteoblue data.
Also FYI, clouds are not coming from METAR but from Meteoblue. Only wind/temperature/pressure/visibility are coming from METAR.
Hmm, I still see bubbles of clouds over airfields sometimes ( Newquay is a regular for that ). Either way Meteoblue’s cloud was not that low - the runway is 100ft ASL, well under even the most pessimistic of Meteoblue’s 200m-400m range. I did three approaches in a row, and on one of them I couldn’t see the runway at DH of 220ft. It was raining, that always screws everything up.
Yes, too late for METAR - despite there being one night flight the airport stops reporting in the late evening. It’ll happen again, I’ll try and capture one then, it’s a bit unreliable for me.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that Meteoblue’s cloud maps are almost entirely useless - if I look out the window there’s the odd cloud puff at probably 2500ft but over me, meteoblue has 80-95% cover at 200-400m ( I am about 14nm from EGTE, so it’s relevant ).
METAR: EGTE 021220Z 22025G38KT 9999 FEW015 BKN025 14/10 Q0977
It is not actually cloudy down there either, just the odd scattered cloud ( as the metar says, few/broken fits ). It’s not raining in game at least, so there is actual visibility - I think the ingame rain showing as fog/ground level cloud bothers me a lot more than excessive cloud from Meteoblue.
Also yes, it really is that gusty - even worse where I am on the coast.
It’s trying at least ( the cloud has thickened here whlie I was sorting out this post ), if only that bottom cloud layer wasn’t there it’d be a pretty good match locally. Sadly I think that layer is what’s messing up the airport/metar area too, and for that we can probably point fingers at Meteoblue providing poor data.
Opaque rain though, that’s all Asobo.
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0100/21-01-24 ( ish ), Glasgow/EGPF
METAR: EGPF 210050Z AUTO 22013KT 9999 FEW017/// SCT031/// BKN042/// //////TCU 08/06 Q0996
- orange is 200-400m, the airport is roughly at “Paisley” so in the 600-800m band, airport runway elevation is 21ft ASL.
Last few minutes of this ( the TOD is changed, the weather not ). Yes it really was that gusty. What part of that is 10km or greater vis?
None of these things seem to match!
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