This isn’t specific to the beta sadly, I reported this back in September last year and it got marked as ‘investigating’ but then literally nothing has been done to even try and fix it:
ISSUE DESCRIPTION
SU2 BETA
Description of the issue:
The live weather cannot decide between “now” and “now-24h”, i.e. 24 hours old weather is injected in an alternating fashion.
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Happens globally, it is live global weather
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Not related to time, but as an example, 13 April, 19:24 UTC
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Not relevant, no weather modifying content present.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Alternating, basically blinking slowly.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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- Simply fly with live weather option on, in an area where the weather 24 hours ago was significantly different than now.
- It can also be forced/checked in the Main Menu, Free Flight, by moving the time slider from “live” to a few minutes in the past. The weather will change to its 24 hour old version.
YOUR SETTINGS
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Indeed, since the last beta I have been finding weather depiction sometimes completely out of sync with real weather, when using real weather in the simulator.
Comparing to METARs that sometimes report 2 or even 3 layers of BKN and SCT I sometimes see clear skies or skies with some slight puffs of cumulus.
The weird thing is that T and Wind sometimes are OK, just the cloud coverage and visibility differ from real weather.
hopefully their investigation will fix the issue in 2024 also, if this is the same underlying issue at play here, seems likely i think
I really think that its 24 hours behind with live weather ticked on. Heres another example of how the world map looks with live weather ticked to “live”
Heres the sat map from exactly 24 hours ago:
Matches the world map very closely right?
Lets take a look at the cloud cover IRL as it is right now:
I think this is pretty conclusive that something isnt working right and live weather is infact often 24 hours behind..
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Thank you for the bug report.
We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.
Could those of you experiencing any issues let me know if the problems you are facing seem similar to reports in the thread linked below? I’m tracking to see if these may be related. Thanks!
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Here you go perfect example. METAR showing overcast. I’m looking directly at the airport, clear skies.
Live weather is completely broken.
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It is not completely broken. With the exception of wind, pressure, and temperature, the weather is occasionally not synchronized with the simulation time.
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