Big weather front of cloudy skies and rain over the UK right now - MSFS 2020 & 2024 few clouds and blue skies
Could be a difference in weather models. Checking cloud cover and precipitation over the UK with the MeteoBlue app right now (24 May at 1210Z).
With either the GFS or ICON global models selected, there is dense cloud cover and a large area of precip along the eastern side of the UK.
With the NEMSGLOBAL model selected (which is the model that MSFS uses), cloud cover is much less, and any precip is predicted to be farther east - mainly over Belgium and France.
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Which of them is closest to the precipitation layer that’s being put out by the sim?
The sim uses NEMSGLOBAL so the cloud/preciptitation pattern shown in the MeteoBlue app with the NEMS model selected should approximate what is seen in MSFS.
Keeping in mind that the sim also uses real time METAR data and (I’m pretty sure) also uses real time satellite imagery to enhance the model cloud data. I’m positive, based on several tests I have performed, that satellite data is being used to enhance the model cloud coverage over North America - I don’t know if that is the case everywhere though.
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LOWS 031620Z 21010KT 9999 SHRA VCTS FEW026 FEW030CB BKN060 19/18 Q1025 RETSRA TEMPO 4000 TSRA
Decoded textual weather for LOWS
Wind: 210 at 10 knots
Visibility: 10+ SM (9999+ m)
Clouds: Broken at 1638 feet, Few at 4000 feet
Temperature: 19,0C
Precipitation: Heavy rain
Altimeter: 1025 mb (30,27 inches)
Thunderstorms in the vicinity
no rain no thunderstorm
[sigh] Live weather doesn’t match the real world in 2024 again. 
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I thought it was just me yesterday, but luckily I still have MSFS2020 installed so was able to check and had exactly this, i.e. Rain and thunderstorm depicted in 2020 as per the METAR but no rain or thunder in MSFS2024. It’s disappointing that after all this time fundamentals like this are still broken in 2024
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