Live weather no clouds

This is incredibly frustrating and I wish this could be addressed. I have been experiencing this issue fairly consistently for a little over a month now. Can’t seem to figure out a reliable workaround either…

Also make sure Developer mode is off.

Not seeing any clouds at the moment after 1.5 hr flight into KJFK. While it is raining there… and satellite images show a cloud layer. METAR is reading correctly. I had clouds when taking off from the Bahama’s. Never experienced this before!

Wind is working fine…

Like some others have mentionned, guess it depends where you are flying. Did a Brussels → Dublin yesterday in the A32NX and the clouds and wind where absolutely fantastic. The new Metar feature and ground haze is spectacular. A big thanks to Asobo on this update!

Yep, same here. This bug is around for me since many months and depends on location. I encouter it usually from Vermont to Florida and Carrebeans. It was clear sky over New-York in the flight bellow. Usually it is just the clouds that are missing. There is some haze but not the thick cloud and rain I though I would see bellow. Got same issue in China and Eastern Quebec and Newfoundland.
South of Atlantic city:



I wonder why we can’t vote on this thread. Is it because it’s not in the bugs section of the forums?

Correct, you cannot vote in that specific forum. You should vote for that thread in the Bug forum Live weather stops injecting after a certain duration flown / certain time flown that is reporting the issue and that is already feedback-logged. This issue is not only happening after a certain time of flight but can also happen right after you start a new flight as many users reported. Some workarounds exist but they not always work, so we really need the devs to start looking for the root cause.

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No live weather or traffic right now. I show online but MSFS won’t let me select realtime weather and traffic. anyone else?

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No cloud with liveweather yesterday and today as soon as the flight starts. Frustrating.

yea I haven’t had live weather in a couple days either. I have no clue what’s going on with this stupid thing. Sitting at KIAH and the sim doesn’t pull any information at all in the metar. Not in dev mode or anything.

If:

  • Live Weather is activated in Data
  • You are not in Dev mode
  • you tried with IPv6 disabled
  • you are in an aera that is showing clouds in the world map

And still no clouds, then sorry, but I don’t know what the issue is and what else to try

what is IPv6? My live weather is activated in data, I never use dev mode, dont have/use any third-party weather add-ons, and most of the time clouds are non-existent on the world map- it is simply clear skies everywhere…

IPv6 is an internet protocol. Check out those posts:

You don’t have to be in an area that is showing clouds in the world map to have clouds. If you are at an airport and the metar says there are clouds you should have clouds.

Agree, it should be as you stated, but there are some issues with METAR integration, and in some cases, even if METAR is reporting some clouds or overcast, the sim is not displaying them as it should, refer to post METAR keeps disrupting the weather/ bugged weather/Cumulus/CB clouds only/no medium to high cloud coverage, some examples are coming there.

Nope, they use Meteoblue as source for clouds.

https://www.meteoblue.com/

wind, temp, pressure and visibility comes from METAR.

The problem is the meteoblue data is always several hours late (6, I think). So we get metars reporting clouds and no clouds in the sim. I wonder if that will ever be fixed.

Happy to report that this has improved for me - I am getting clouds with my live weather now. Knocking on wood.

thank you for your help. I turned dev mode off and my clouds came back. Thank you again. kee the blue side up.

You can fly with Dev mod on and have clouds, juts make sure to have the option “Volumetric atmospheric effects” ticked. When turning Dev mode off, by default that option is activated that is why you are sure to have clouds when leaving that mode.