METAR injection into sim

Has anyone seen a utility that can take METAR test and inject it into the sim? If so, did it generate weather correctly or at least close?

That’s what MSFS live weather does these days already.

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Let me correct that for you…

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it does, but it also tries to blend it with the meteoblue data to make sure there aren’t many weird transition (of which there are still some).

It’s not perfect yet, but it’s getting better and better.

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Apologies, my sarcasm wasn’t aimed at you, sorry if it came across that way. Live Weather seems to be broken yet again today.

The current weather at EGCC is Overcast cloud at 600ft. The sim is depicting a thin haze layer but otherwise clear skies.

Whatever the MeteoBlue/Metar relationship is, it’s not a happy one. Either that or the servers are on the blink yet again. It could be either/or or both, who knows?

Either way, the OP should take a look at Rex Weather Force.

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I’m not a fan of weather mods myself, since they just take a metar, and inject it globally, so you won’t see different weather building on the horizon. But to each their own.

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Me neither to be honest. I look forward to the day the native weather system works as it’s supposed to, each and every time.

Right now it’s a complete lottery as to what you’re going to get.

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I think the problem is that these are two incompatible ideas. METAR is supposed to be a description of the current weather state at a station that a pilot can use to plan, not a complete description of a weather system. Using METAR to generate the weather is only something sims did because that was what was available. With the Meteoblue data - if it works and is accurate - the sim has access to a far larger number of data points with which to construct a weather model. IMHO what MS should have done is find a way to generate a useful METAR from the weather model, not the other way around or whatever this halfway house is. It just doesn’t work.

Also: historical live weather. It bothers me that apparently MS doesn’t understand why many of us want this. I would have thought it would be obvious. Having no way to query the weather data via SimConnect means add-on ATC software is never going to work properly except in live weather where they can query the data from NOAA or something similar. I just got bitten by this recently.

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Yes, its like changing the real weather to match METAR that not matching the real weather. How is that possible? It’s not realistic to change weather to match METAR. And we can now see that the weather in the sim is not realistic anymore.

Besides i think REX weather force is better option to use as it is now. I hope i can get options to use the weather as it was pre su7 without METAR though.

I’ve seen sometimes its accurate and other times its not. Also, so airports, smaller ones, dont have available METAR info in the sim, so I was looking for a way to copy/paste it rather than going into the manual weather screen and setting it up in there…

The two should be entirely compatible.

MeteoBlue is effectively providing the TAF weather, the general overview, whilst the METAR gives us the actual weather at a given time. It won’t surprise you to know that the two are often very closely linked.

It is very very rare to have a TAF giving a forecast of one thing to find the actual is totally different.

The MeteoBlue and METAR data should, and I’m sure eventually will, marry together neatly. For the time being however something is just wrong with the whole system.

The example I gave today, neither the MeteoBlue nor the METAR data was correct. Something is fundamentally awry with live weather at the minute. Let’s hope that Asobo can start to iron out these niggles with SU8.

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if you have examples that specific (especially if they occur regularly), be sure to file them with as much detail as possible on Zendesk. This will help them troubleshoot.

Submit a request – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com)

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Just look at the difference in Metroblue between the different models. I think the UK has been on the ICON model hence the lack of cloud over the last few days.

I have no idea which model the SIM uses, but I have watched this over the last 3 days and it would certainly to be the UK has been using the ICON and the NEMS has actually been much closer aligned to what the cloud cover has actually been.

ICON

NEMS

AFAIK, Live Weather uses the NEMS Global model exclusively,

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Yes, totally agree that a ‘sim-METAR’ should be generated from the sim - hopefully then allowing Asobo to make the best of that great weather engine without compromises to squeeze in ‘real-world METAR’ … the likely outcome would be something that would be pretty close to real-world conditions most of the time. However Asobo should then go one stage further and make the ‘sim-METAR’ available externally for 3rd party applications.

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