Sim incapable of injecting any clouds in Live Weather

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Have you disabled/removed all your mods and addons?

Yes

Brief description of the issue:

No clouds in Live weather anywhere. I have winds and pressure - but no clouds appear anywhere

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9:00am 11/30

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Start a flight in an area where its clearly raining or overcast - no clouds

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Current live version


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No issues for myself in that regard, but just to be safe, go into your options and ensure the data / online options are all turned on.

Sometimes in updates they get turned off.

Been thru all that and more after reading all of the forums this am - nothing is working

Topic moved into #self-service:weather for community assistance.

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I have suffered with this issue for quite some time - on average, I don’t have live weather clouds about 50% of the time.

However, whilst I thought the problem was associated with servers, I now think it is caused by addons in the Community Folder.

Please rename your Community Folder and create a new empty one and then check live weather clouds.

This worked for me.

I am now trying to work out which addon / addons are the cause.

Let me know how you get on.

Thanks…tried that as well (although I dont have that much in community anyways)…still no help atm

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Ok…I repaired my msfs in apps and features and the clouds are back. I was thinking of reinstalling but I am glad I didnt have to go that route.

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Interesting, I hadn’t heard that one yet.

Glad you got it all back.

Actually I was a bit premature - its not 100% - sometime I load and I get clouds and sometime I load and I dont…still cant find the rhyme or reason to it yet.

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Haven’t worked any of these in my case. Only when i use vpn i have clouds. Wind and baro are always correct.

I should note that when I look at my metar its clearly not correct for the airport I am at. I am going to try accuweather again (I just loaded it up after not using it for awhile) and at least I have proper weather and clouds again…

Maybe something silly to check, but do you have flightsimulator.exe enabled in your Windows firewall settings ?

LOL and a OMG…I was playing around with firewall settings and thought about changing those yesterday (I actually have multiple flightsimulator.exe settings in MS firewall). I tried turning off the firewall just to try but that didnt do anything - turned back on. I was going to try what you suggested next and I changed and checked on the Private settings boxes on all of them and presto - I seem to have clouds (more specifically I have the metar from the local airport again). I have been fooled a bit the last day but I just went in 2 times and it was there.

This was clearly a change by Asobo/MS after the last patch - there is no way I changed that or set that in anyway…so yeah this wasnt something I did or changed and is on Asobo/MS in this case.

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Great that it works and let’s see if it is stable the next few days. FYI, I also had many flightsimulator.exe in that firewall list of applications, I just let one and deleted all the other ones. I think that when MSFS is updated to a new version it automatically add a new .exe file to the list but it is not mandatory to keep all of them.

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Ok guys I think I found (again) a workaround that works…
VPN is the solution, until Asobo fixes that… Now I have clouds.

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OK, I would try the firewall workaround too. I can confirm, weather not matching Meteoblue at all.

No clouds for me still. Will confirm the firewall workaround.

Where are you located ?, Greek people have reported an issue with their ISP (internet service provider) Unable to load live weather
Live weather not available for Greek users

Since I adjusted my firewall settings I have not had any issues with clouds in the sim…I am not in greece so thats not an issue for me.

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My firewall has MSFS as an exception, but still clouds are not as per Meteoblue.

take a look at my post, this solved no clouds with live weather for me. Hope this helps.