Completely agree, always ironic how we demand this and that then call it a bug when it’s implemented, works exactly as intended and we see it in reality.
One of the only things that worked well at initial release was the dynamic weather system. We demanded a perfectly reasonable system be changed because the sim showed winds 10kts @ 050 but the hour(s) old meter read 11kts @ 051.
Can’t lay that one on Asobo, it’s squarely on us. I sincerely hope that generating weather from METARs is done away with, or at least becomes an optional feature in 2024. Sadly I doubt that will happen. We got what we asked for on this one and we’re probably stuck with it.
I hardly think it works exactly as people intended.
I’m pretty sure that not many people would have asked for it in terms of “Please make it so that METAR stations forcibly override surrounding conditions leaving immersion-breaking cloud circles everywhere and ruining overall cloud structures”
I get that many folks would ask for some means of ensuring better matching weather between RW METARS and the sim, but I doubt they’d have wanted so much if they knew that it’d get done like this.
I’m rather convinced that this isn’t really even what Asobo themselves wanted. They have stated before that there shouldn’t be any effect on clouds from the implementation of METAR blending.
Now, seeing as how there certainly is an effect, and an extremely detrimental one at that, it’s only fair to conclude that things have not gone as planned.
And that, is The Bug this thread is all about. It’s not that people don’t want METAR blending, we just want it done right and in the years since, that has not happened yet.
unfortunately, this issue has not been fixed in MSFS 2024. The weather and clouds quality, and also the depiction is as worse as in MSFS 2020. It’s sad, i was really hoping they will be massive improvements on weather in MSFS2024.
It is a shame that this problem continues. As you can see, although there are high clouds that cover more than 95%, they are not shown in the sim and what appears are high clouds with a density of 0.1, not even 1.
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2024 and the weather depiction although better, is still seemingly unable to do overcast layers. Look at the metar, there should be 2 layers, one broken and one overcast. The sim is, of course as usual showing lovely clear sky. I don’t know what more we need to do to get the devs attention on this but cloud coverage is one of the most fundamental parts of flying and yet they are getting is so totally wrong. I wouldn’t even say this was “broken” as the tablet describes. It’s clear with a circle of haze that surrounds the airport!
The new cirrus clouds are a scam. They are just painted onto the sky and don’t react to changing the time (other clouds do reflect the historic weather of the past day), let alone the high altitude wind speed. Cannot believe how MS can promote this as improved clouds.
So I don’t know if it’s my imagination or not - but it seems to me that the first flights after release I saw more variations, denser clouds and bigger cloud fronts and better looking clouds. Like I say, may be an imagination, but now I (only) see again these semi-transparent clusters of clouds, sometimes denser and sometimes less dense, all at the same height ! Either some of the weather ‘density’ and accuracy has been taken away with the patches to save server performance or I just can’t find these clouds anymore !
i agree, in the first days after the release and even in the alpha the clouds were better depicted, it was not perfect but more acceptable than what we see now
so I have now looked at the screenshots of the release - it actually looks different, or I can’t find the same weather - I have always looked at the weather map - tested different regions and I didn’t notice anything like that - maybe that would explain these new messages → December24 - Live weather injection bug MSFS2024 - data issue?
looks to me like the messages after SU6/7 in MSFS2020 - they were exactly the same errors - didn’t someone in the forum report that MSFS 2020 was ‘down’ - maybe just a coincidence ?
For a few days the weather does not match and I have noticed that the METAR real and the simulation does not match. I fly regularly from the airport of the city where I live LSGC in Switzerland.
Noticed this as well. They are just randomly put there to shut us up, no interaction with the atmosphere at all. Disappointing, but totally expected - they said we would have tornados (we have scientific missions that didn’t even work and crashed from the start of the sim), thunderstorms (apparently still not existent) and supercells (does Asobo even know what a supercell storm is?).
