Reproducible:
When I select an airport that doesn’t have a weather station, the categorical condition is reported as LIFR (low IFR - ceilings less than 500’ and/or visibility less than 1 mile).
As such, Mina, NV airport (3Q0) does not have an AWOS or reportable METAR, yet when selecting the mission, it was “reporting” LIFR conditions. The time scale was set to real-time.
It’s not really telling us why it’s LIFR, the visibility seems to be 30NM (another bug - surface and flight visibility should always be reported in statute miles - SM) and the sun icon denotes there are no clouds (maybe?).
Further real-time investigation using aviationweather.gov (which I use for real-world flying) proved that there were no IFR AIRMETs or other adverse conditions in the area for that time or the near future. The enroute weather and forecasts are something that is a big missing part of aeronautical decision-making. I’m trying to help people use real-world resources to make those decisions, but I don’t know what the sim will actually feed us when we click “fly now.”
In this case, I flew the flight and the weather gleaned from the aviationweather site, as usual, was pretty spot-on in the sim. No adverse conditions. It was actually a really lovely flight with a beautiful sunset.
Summary: please investigate why the sim status is reporting LIFR when it is clearly not so.