it is down again
I am getting live weather…
It’s down for me as well.
It’s the typical 18:30 to 19:12 EST outage. It should be back in a few minutes from now.
Yes was down for me this evening as well
Just took off from Mobile Downtown. In game METAR and ATIS indicate clouds, but none load. Only visibility (and that took about 5-10 minutes to display) and wind. ATIS pressure was 29.96 but tower pressure was standard 29.92. It looks like clouds and precip don’t load currently.
I’ve observed today that airports I’ve loaded in at that should be overcast but are clear, seems to be down to Meteoblue having incorrect forecast/info. Take EGCC for example, overcast all day and still reporting, yet Meteoblue thinks it’s clear.
Just recently it seems Meteoblue’s forecast accuracy has really gotten poor
How is everyone finding the weather seeing as this very topic was one of those SU7 aimed to improve accuracy.
For me and I know many others SU7 has made the live weather a complete mess, it largely doesn’t match METAR or Meteoblue now. Totally incorrect mess mostly, with connective ash clouds almost everywhere.
For me now currently with SU7 live weather is the worse it has been both in regards to accuracy and general depiction.
There is no way on this Earth the sky over London looks like that right now. Not a chance.
You’re right, NCD means No Clouds Detected which means there should be nothing.
No cloud detected means the METAR can’t detect clouds, because it only detects clouds up to 5,000ft. It can be complete overcast as it has been over the UK today and still report NCD if that overcast is high enough to not be detected by METAR. We see that a lot here in the UK. Other airports sometimes even report CAVOK but can be totally overcast for the same reasons.
As you can see London should be overcast
Nope, you are not correct. No cloud detected means exactly that, it didn’t detect clouds. It does not mean there are no clouds, just means it didn’t detect any clouds below 5,000ft.
That makes sense. I’m digging out webcams in the area, and from what little of the sky that I can make out, as they are mainly pointed down at traffic, the sky does look grey.
I’m seeing quite a bit more pop-in and sudden cloud formations appearing, that weren’t present under the old weather system. I’m hoping this can be resolved.
Yes this is an issue as well. 
Yeah it’s like this across pretty much the whole of the UK, high overcast, this is why a lot of airports report that NCD or CAVOK because the cloud layer is just too high to be detected by the automatic detection used to generate these METARs.
No it doesn’t.
NCD is used when an Automatic Observing System is being used and it means ‘No Clouds Detected’.
CAVOK means vis 10km+, no cloud of operational significance (base not below 5000ft or the highest MSA whichever is greater and no CB or TCU at any height) and no weather of significance to aviation.
The 5,000ft thing has nothing to do with NCD.
Yes it does as these automatic detection only detect cloud up to 5,000ft, therefore like you’re seeing at London city and like we’ve seen for example at Manchester today too, when the cloud base is higher than 5,000ft it can’t detect it and therefore generates a NCD in the METAR.
The fact you’re stating that there should be no cloud at all over London is simply not correct.