Perhaps one area that has improved with MSFS 2024 is snow coverage. Just tracking it for my home area it has been very accurate. The snow-melt-snow-melt-snow cycle has been portrayed quite well, with just the right amount of snow, and grass and bushes poking through the snow just as it does IRL. Very nicely done.
Have others had the same experience?
It does look good, but the “Snow Depth” slider in the weather widget could more accurately be called “Snow Altitude”, as, as one moves the slider to the right, snow appears at lower & lower altitudes. There does not appear to be any change in its depth once it is shown on the ground.
I’ve also been unable to get falling snow rendered in 2024 so far, no matter what snow, temperature or cloud permutations I set in the weather widget.
No real improvement I can see, milford sound in nz still covered in snow despite being in the middle of summer.
A little snow on the mountain tops is still interpreted as a massive blanket of snow down to sea level. It still appears to be using the same low resolution snow maps from meteoblue.
I really hoped there would be more smarts at play here to help shape the snow map to the terrain and weather conditions, even a simple freezing level cutoff based on altitude unless there is active snowfall in the area maybe?
At least the snow shader looks better.
I checked a couple areas where it is snowing right now per this map:
Snow cover map LIVE:✔️ Where is it currently snowing? ❄️ . The map was showing Wet Snow in Rindal, Sweden and this is what MSFS 2024 showed:
Absolutely stunned by the snow. Much better in 2024. Especially areas with patchy snow, or just a light covering. Really stunning.
Yes, areas with patchy snow or a light covering is what I noticed, too. It looks very good!
If you can list your icao airport so i can visit 
Unfortunately it has snowed more since the days I had watched, so the ground is covered pretty well now and won’t show patchy areas. I will get a screenshot of an airport/scenery and post it next time I find a patchy, snowy condition. It wasn’t snowing much around the world today, per the map (above).
New England, east coast. Snow on ground, and… nothing in flight sim!!
Same here, I’ve also noticed no snow in the east coast as there should be.
Michigan lower peninsula is missing snow cover on the ground. It was decently accurate until the snow storm at the end of last week. Hasn’t seemed to update coverage since then.
I’ve checked several airports today against various sources and found them to be reasonably (but not always) accurate to the current conditions.
Here is KOSH (Oshkosh, WI) which, according to Meteoblue, has 0.05 ft - 0.10 ft of snow:
And MSFS 2024 shows light snow coverage, as it should be, at KOSH:
There are, however, a few areas, like KMCD, which currently has some snow coverage, but it doesn’t show up like that in MSFS 2024.
In all fairness, Meteoblue appears to show more snow (deeper yellow) around the Oshkosh area than it shows around the Mackinac Island (KMCD) area. I guess MSFS 2024 has to rely on data that might be somewhat older than current and/or is subject to a specific threshold. We cannot expect it to be accurate all of the time.
yea, was pretty disappointed with this as well. Microsoft and Asobo need to learn that the world is not US and Europe. Some of the most beautiful scenery in the world is in the Southern Alps of NZ.
Interesting. Do you know if there are sources for snow coverage other than Meteo Blue that they could use? Perhaps a suggestion would help them?
simple- no snow cover where it sould be now…
amen.
Asobo are you gona fix it OR YOU WAIT TILL SPRING TIME???
brds
Do we know what data source they use for snow cover? Is it publicly available? Would be nice for us to know what data they use. Because the snow cover in MSFS 2024 has been completely off for the place where I live (midwestern USA).
