is it a bug?
Well, for me it is a bug because when you are using weather presets you can see nice clouds and it does not impact (or a little) the performance. It looks like Live Weather engine is not receiving the correct data to depict with accuracy the clouds.
When SU7 came out and introduced that regression with clouds in Live Weather, since Asobo did not communicate around that and did not recognize it was a bug even if many reported an issue, we thought maybe it was to improve performance because of the introduction of XBOX and/or because of the METAR introduction that was limitating the clouds depiction in Live weather.
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holy METAR!
wedding cake , i think the metar has found a wife
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Those towering clouds are still happening even if less frequent.
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they still happen every time there is some convection, so at the moment this is how the game represent CBs 
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Well, i think itâs intended
Either i would have reverted the weather to pre su7 or add an option for us that found the weather pre su7 superior. I have nothing to look forward to with this METAR thing that is focused on.
Only improvement iâve seen in those releasenotes is interpolation with METAR or improved hard transitions between METAR. When i donât care about METAR at all. I only care about improvements of Meteoblue data that already fits globally.
Make METAR fit Meteoblue weather is not possible because that weather is unpredictable as real weather is. METAR is not unpredictable, itâs set in stone. And that feel i get in the sim now, that weather is set in stone.
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the metar weather
how can the meteoblue forecast even fit into this picture when metar is taking over such a large area?
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Thats what i mean by same looking weather all the time. That i didnât experience pre su7. Even if the clouds look dynamic, the clouds are fixed in place and looks generic. Well, we can only hope Asobo gives us option to have the dynamic weather back again. Why didnât they add METAR weather as an optional feature only. That doesnât even require an azure server. And many of those want METAR doesnât need the weather to behave realistic only that it matches those METAR 100% then those users are happy.
Why make it behave unrealistic for all of the users?
I understand those need it to match METAR but we already had that option pre su7.
Well, i bet we will see more interpolation fixes between those METAR. But we that donât need those what do we have to look forward to?
The interpolation only makes those happy that want the METAR interfare with Meteoblue-data.
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Didnât Asobo say that METARs have absolutely zero say in clouds reproduction? Iâm so confused lolâŠ
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i am confused too, today the weather for me has been very good in the simâŠwhich is good, will it last ?
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at least this is now feedback-logged
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finally a little positive sign
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yes here too - throughout the day I had a good look and also quite accurate !?! Did the MSFS weather gods have a good day ? 
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I hope they are hard at work for the weather, for the full release of the 40th anniversary
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i hope so because we canât enjoy the new incoming planes without a nice looking and realistic weather
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Yep, I was under the same impression the last two days: the weather looked reasonable and seemed more or less accurate.
So maybe it is time to provide some factual feedback again:
Hereâs todayâs flight weather forecast for northern Germany:
A low pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean produces a current of warm air, partially deeply unstable, from the southwest. A front of said low pressure system has reached the area and is passing to the east.
From the West we can expect BKN/OVC SC/AC/CI from 1500ft to 2500ft, with tops beyond FL245. These clouds produce light to moderate rain with some heavier showers out of EMBD CB with Tops up to FL330. Occasional TS not fully impossible.
Hereâs said weather system in the Meteoblue satellite image:
I took a flight from Hamburg (EDDH - 1) via Hannover (EDDV -2) to Paderborn (EDLP -3).
According to the forecast compared to the satllite imagery I donât expect CBâs, but some convective clouds producing the occasional rain shower with some blue skies in between.
MSFS has it reasonable in EDDH with blue skies to the east
and some convective clouds coming in from the southwest.
So far - so good.
Enroute to EDDV seems as expected as well:
BUT: in EDDV the current METAR obviously disturbs the coherence of the weather depiction, as it displays FEW clouds not fitting the surrounding weather situation:
Sure enough, having passed EDDV enroute to EDLP I encountered a sudden change back to this:
Reaching EDLP, it looks reasonable again, but thereâs no sign of higher reaching convective clouds producing rain showers. Positively noted, at least I didnât encounter a sudden change flying into the METAR area.
Hereâs what it looked like from the ground:
Conclusion:
Not too bad, at least far better than what we had to endure since SU7 and the following âupdatesâ.
The METAR area around EDDV clearly disturbs the positive impression. The FEW cloud depiction was warranted by the in-game METAR report, but if you look at the real-world METAR report that was actual when I was passing the airport, you can see that the overall weather situation with incoming convective weather was not taken into account:
EDDV 221250Z AUTO 25008KT 9999 FEW030 19/13 Q1013 TEMPO SHRA BKN020CB
Leaving the METAR area of EDDV was immersion-breaking as the weather depiction changed apruptly.
The weather depiction at the destination was looking good, but it also didnât take the convection into account.
Nowhere on the whole route I saw any cloud formation warranting rain showers, and so my verdict is:
Usable, but still some serious work to do.
At least I think it is not so bad that I have to uphold my self-imposed MSFS hiatus any longer - provided this is the beginning of a positive trend we are seeing here.
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I still meet some awful CBs/ clouds formations around METAR areaâs. not all of them. It happens a lot in Japan and Taiwan and northern ItalyâŠI think those areas with many METAR areas. I still donât know why METAR areas can look good and very bad at the same time. All I know is that it is very immersion breaking.
I think a very good step forward would be if those METAR areas would at least produce the clouds that matches with meteoblue, for example if outside that areas meteoblue is producing stratus many km away then the METAR area should have stratus clouds not cumulus or worse CBs.
Or even better solution, have an in game generated METAR so it will always be correct!
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