I would say they are lower than 4000ft?
I can check though. I think the weather has changed a bit since i was flying there though. But to me this feels more accurate than those yellow towering clouds.
Looks good to me.
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Yes sadly me too, I’ve seen clouds on the ground in nearly every location I’ve been flying in (mostly around sea level) using Live Weather. Something is fundamentally wrong with their height logic, and it’s definitely not being drawn as ‘fog’ either.
Yep, I mean even when it looks ‘correct’ it just doesn’t look anywhere near as good as it used to.
Check this, especially clouds pre-SU5 (27/7/21) and pre-SU7 as well obviously (18/11/21).
It is just a different league in my opinion, the quality is so much lower.
Agree with you on that. Just that it was looking better today than those days since su7 was released up until today. Hope it lasts now. For me it has switched between those two. Sometime when i look at it. From one weather rendering to another that made the clouds be separated from eachother and those towering clouds shows everywhere after that switch.
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Now Asobo look and learn.
Good clouds, we like,
Bad clouds, we don’t like.
One of these makes the sim look absolutely amazing and is the crowning glory, the other ruins it and is just not up to the standard you have so wonderfully set with the visuals in other aspects of the sim.
Thank you.
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Guys,
from my historic investigations, lower clouds altitude near ground was presented early than first SU7 also.
I just did quick test with real weather and looks like all is ok, Bratislava, METAR reports FEW 3500 AGL, sim looks like correct.
FEW are also around airport visible, around/inside that front coverage also somewhere.
This is in German video of two real world pilots flying the FBW in real weather. The quality of the video is great, especially the takeoff and approach ( FS crashed so they had to restart, but start watching at around 1:28:00 )
Note on approach how they fly through the clouds, and right on final ( 2:50:00 ) they fly right into the rain over the airport! That was very cool to see…
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Gut video 
also funny reports and also many good infos also from background/service. Best in my opinion 4:50:07 and also talks 
very good video. Yes that rain was perfect and hope I good understood them that they predict that rain from far away as weather, echt klasse!
I came across this Youtube video recorded at the end of Sept 2020 :
Just look how awesome the overcast looks here - so realistic !
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Agreed, live weather as of now is working great – took off from KMIA to KDFW and as soon as I got over Louisiana, the stormy weather started showing, which is perfectly working!
in sim:
Something is off again with the altimeter/altitude. I was on VATSIM earlier and my altitude was consistently off by about 1,000 feet at all times. I wasn’t the only one experiencing this, others were getting questioned on why they weren’t at their assigned altitude.
But it can also look totally wrong like this. I think as soon as a layer of clouds should be low over ground those towering clouds is there instead. In Sweden we have many places with reported low clouds and here i mostly get those volcanic ash of clouds. When i test clouds bases that should be higher i never get those volcanic ashes.
Test like Arlanda if you want to test it or other places with real low clouds reported. If you want to stay away from them like i am doing because it’s not realistic to fly through those clouds with a small prop plane fly at places there is higher cloud bases reported. But i think we not should need to plan where to fly if those are not reported in METAR. It’s not a fix. I would like this to be fixed instantly to be able to fly in believable weather in my home country Sweden.
This test is from KCBF a random place i looked up with low level overcast reported, NO TCU or CB reported there.
Here i show how it looks like at Arlanda (ESSA)
This is how it looks like there now IRL
This is forecast with no towering clouds forecasted at Arlanda.
This is how forecasted CB should look like.
And this is an example of METAR that reports CB
GFLL 090000Z 28006KT 9999 TS BKN012 FEW026CB 27/23 Q1011 RMK CB- N/NE
One more test OVC 005 No CB reported at EBLB.
Please Asobo fix this and let everybody enjoy the weather wherever we want to fly.
Also reported to Zendesk
Zendesk ticket: #142963
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Right now live weather is gone completely (inflight - Europe).
Weird, working as normal for me, tested Europe and US and live weather is there.
I ride along and see if it comes back. 
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If this is supposed to illustrate good weather modeling then I can say that orographically induced convection and thunderstorms looked a million times more correct before SU7. Just look here for example at the pathetic attempt to draw the anvil cloud with many small cumuli. The spherical shape of he convective core is unrealistic as well.
The problem with the new weather is that it’s focused on drawing, not modeling. And drawing will always be limited by the artist and their toolbox, while modeling creates a new representation every time.
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