No live weather at all (February 2023)

This issue was not occuring during beta testing.

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This wasn’t an issue during testing. As you can see here: Online Services Monitoring this was just started earlier in the week.

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All points to a weather hosting or weather to MSFS mechanism prior to the SIM to me. Chances of getting it resolved over the weekend… low I’d guess … sadly.

Someone needs to be looking at SLA’s of hosting or weather injection mechanism

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I keep getting an intermittent weird thing where METARs from two days ago are showing up in-sim:

I doubt it’s related to the AAU1 reslease that caused this issue. That was released 5 days ago.
I’ve been flying every day since it’s release and only started having this issue yesterday.

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I can confirm this also for sure.

Update: sry if I could also report weather change here at LKTB, it changed without problems, noticed this a few seconds before. What is interesting with that change, it clears all weather for cca 2s. and then inject new more scattered clouds so looks like at my side all is working, and if I ommit that precipitations as METAR web shows, it is ok.

Update2 important: now I discovered interesting thing, I went to up toolbar weather and set there presets clear weather with that switch Real weather. After switch back to Real/Live weather clear sky persists and looks like I need wait again 15 min for weather :slight_smile: No, sry I’ve discovered this few layer after switch to Live this although scattered clouds are there seconds before:


Will wait for refresh 15min for sure.

Update after 15min (17:23Z cca):

I saw interesting, weather changed to that expected broken as METAR shows and right after 2s changed back to clear. Better say this is actual state here in LKTB:


heh my luck I was watching outside Seneca in this time heh because I can easy miss that 2s refresh to correct weather and back to wrong :smiley:

17:33Z
Rainbow on my look :slight_smile:


Looks like all will comming to good, hope :smiley: Heard precipitations for a short time.

17:41Z
Did switch Live weather again to no Live and back to Live and…

17:49Z all has gone. It looks to me that all clouds moved from NW to SE as wind shows at time.

17:51Z now:

17:54Z yes, clouds still moves from NW to SE as in previous screen.
17:55Z Clouds more heavy are comming more

17:56 I heard littl eprecipitations

17:57Z now is it here, precipitations heard fully

17:59 precipitations ended and clouds move to SE as previously

18:00Z precip started again and clouds move

18:01Z prec ended and clouds move further, my left wing look is +/- N

18:05Z I did switch Live/Not Live and all is ok, it returns back as is prior switch set to off

18:08Z waiting looks like for OVC layer what METAR shows now…
18:10Z switch still working, it correctly switch between Live/no Live.
18:12Z uaaaaaau what a nice Cirrus??? Disregard pls, seneca window shine not Cirrus image :smiley:

18:15Z after switch to Live with Toolbar switch again

18:18Z all gone

18:20Z and now again

Switch Live/No live weather working ok.

18:24Z cloudy over here still

18:27Z all moves slowly SE

18:31Z all gone slowly

18:33 all gone

18:34Z and again at one shot

Switch still works with set weather.
18:38Z METAR shows now OAT 0degC BKN and also light snow and in sim:

18:42Z still same looks like

18:45Z looks like all start gone

18:50 yes, after 15min cca all repeated and now:


Sry for time invalid in 3 previous time stamps I’ve corrected that, only hours were wrong, I’ve set 19Z but it is still 18Z. Hear little precipitations now 18:52Z.

18:54Z looks like that cloud formations are known to me, looks like all starting repeat again???

18:56Z my last screen, after switch Live to not and back to Live all clouds and precipitations gone and this is actual:

:slight_smile: I don’t know if this can be helpful, maybe check and compare of history data, hope for quick solution…

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I don’t think it was the update itself. I was running the final version as a beta tester for weeks, and there were no problems with the weather. The last beta version is identical to the public release version.

This appears to be a problem with the servers.

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Like I said I’m not hopeful for a resolution till the next working week when they investigate the hosting services.

I hope to be proved wrong.

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I was going to do a flight just now. This is the current METAR

ZGGG 041630Z 34003MPS 8000 -RA SCT007 OVC026 15/14 Q1018 NOSIG

Load up the sim and it’s CAVOK

What a joke. Just closed the sim I’m done.

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For me, only work wind and temperature. QNH doesn’t work (is static in Q1013) and I have no clouds.

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It’s BACK for me !

I prepared a flight in the city I live in and looked at the sky from my window and it’s the same. Go to your city in MSFS and look out your window! :grinning:

It is very very tiring and disappointing for two months chasing live weather with help of other software and today, that the half planet facing the same problem Asobo/MS have nothing to say about.

The “investigating” status means nothing to me, because they discover it today letting pass two critical months.

I am looking for an official answer, because i dont believe that they can fix the issue.

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I completely agree.

Where’s the official comment from Microsoft?

Where’s updates on where they are in the investigation?

If things keep dropping (weather service) then they must investigate further and a root cause analysis of what caused the issue to prevent it happening again.

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The most hilarious of all, its that the weather its just a decoding of a single metar line.

not me unfortunately

It seems to be intermittent. Occasionally I will succeed in getting an injection of live weather that is accurate. I suspect that is why some people have success with a vpn. For me, it does not seem vpn dependent when I get live weather. However, typically when I do get live weather, I lose it after 20-30 minutes.

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I flew from Dundee today and live weather was injected after few minutes only. Started a new flight from main menu, no live weather. New flight again, this time clear skies as preset, changing to live weather in the flight, clear skies again, where there were supposed to be clouds. I swapped from Northern Europe server to Western Europe, no change. Cleared rolling cache, no change.

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All weather for me is more than two days old with no clouds.

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No weather for me western europe server this afternoon 2.00pm-4.30pm UT. Strangely surface pressure seemed to be working (it changed from 29.92), but weather was all clear skies everywhere in UK.

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Load in to CYUL Montreal and it starts at +20C A2992 … but as I pushback, it changes to -25C A3056, but still clear blue skies and no snow. Then after about 5 minutes, snow appears. However, the temperature change seems to be affecting the Longitude engines, so I’m leaving the planes in the hangar today.