So there’s a base layer at play underneath the generated layer? Yuck.
But it’s not there full time. It’s only there when live weather is on
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I assumed that was the case, but didn’t specify. It’s a weird juxtaposition.
In Germany, we’ve had a blanket of snow nationwide for days. Everything is white, and the temperatures are consistently below freezing. Meteoblue’s snow depth map still shows no snow, except in the higher elevations and the Alps. Another German weather app displays snow depths much more realistically… I have no idea how Meteoblue measures or calculates its snow depths 
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It depends on which model you’re looking at. There’s a range of results and accuracy. I’ve heard they use the NEMS30 model, but I’ve also seen evidence of the ICON. Hard to say without official word.
Just a quick suggestion: with Rex Atmos Core you will be able to manually enable snow coverage.
It’s far from ideal but at least offers an option to inject snow.
while some places wtith snowfall are too green, other places stay snowwy in the sim all year around. Like Svalbard or parts of Iceland (not the glacers) I’d love to see it fixed and them not having snow in the summer
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The snow representation is definitely broken… here in Sicily on Etna there has been a lot of snow for several weeks now… in the sim it looks like summer… let’s hope that Asobo does something about the representation
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Yeah, I had a nice stroll in the snow today and, of course wanted to look how it looked in the sim. I really have to say that the result was disappointing.
This is the same location IRL less than an hour before taking that photo in the sim.
I mean, obviously not a LOT of snow, but more than enough to provide a pleasant winter panorama. But looking at the Meteoblue map, the issue seems to be, in fact, on their end, since it doesn’t show any snow coverage for the whole Münsterland (where this picture was taken).
Showing the snow coverage for the same area in Ventusky using GFS data, it shows the correct coverage. So whatever MB is doing, it is awful at capturing low coverage. Which is really not great, since that is probably most of the middle European simmers will get in RL, if anything at all. Which for me makes it actually more important to get that right instead of the difference between 80 and 85 centimeters somewhere in the mountains.
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I agree wholeheartedly with what you’re saying, but keep in mind there are several models from which to choose to display snow depth in MB/Windy. I’ve heard NEMS30 is what’s used, but I don’t have verification if that’s for snow, weather, both, or neither. I’ve seen evidence that snow matches the ICON model in some places, but take that with a grain of salt because observational inputs can be shared between models and the “garbage in” causing the discrepancies there might also be polluting other models.
Indeed. Not having snow in the sim while it is white outside is one of the biggest immersion killers I’ve experienced so far, which could take days or even weeks to last. This should be fixed as soon as possible.
As mentioned before: for now I use Rex Atmos Core to manually inject snow especially during startup, takeoff and landing phases in my home airport when it’s white outside IRL. Usually I switch to live wx from the sim when on cruise level and heading towards a non-snowy destination.
Yep, but for me that is surpassed by having snow in the valleys in summer when it is 30*C outside.
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Flew into Eagle County Regional Airport (KEGE) today… Disappointing not seeing any snow depth on the ground with MSFS live weather. Kills immersion. Turned on ActveSky (active mode) and the snow depth immediately appeared.
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There’s currently zero snow in Eagle, so live weather is actually accurate there.
Much heartache could be avoided with verification.
THIS! Flying in parts of Nepal (Lukla being my main bugbear) and NZ is useless with live weather ON 
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Snow data resolution being used is way to big, you can literally see squares of snow kilometres if not hundreds of kilometres wide in the world map:
Come on Asobo and Meteoblue, lets fix this please 
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Nz anywhere around mount cook or Milford is a right off in live weather it’s a shame as they are beautiful places that aren’t always covered in snow
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Opposite problem in Japan, Fuji’s top been covered with snow for weeks, but not a spot of white in sim.
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Pretty poor snow coverage in the northern Sierras currently.
Here’s the sim’s depiction:
Here’s Meteoblue NEMS (auto) - note the weird grid anomaly SW of Quincy:
Meteoblue ICON (auto - Global is the same) - far less coverage and also grid anomalies:
Meteoblue ECMWF:
Meteoblue HRRR:
MB scale:
Here’s the NOHRSC map:
and NOHRSC scale:
Note these maps are all roughly 95 miles wide by 70 miles tall
To be fair, I think some of these overestimate the snow cover - it’s not been a great season and there are definitely a lot of snow-less spots. However, a quick check of a live camera overlooking Lake Davis (NW of Portola), looking north to east shows quite a bit of scattered, but fairly deep coverage where it’s not obscured by tree cover:
Another view from the far north end of this viewshed, looking south:
Yet in the sim, same area (camera location and viewshed of the top pic above denoted), nothing:
Same location, in-sim. Yes, live weather and real-time are on. And I’ve reset it a few times to see if it will change, and it does not:
So why, when every model is showing snow coverage in that area, is there no snow depicted in the sim? Satellite shows it as well, and it’s not like it has fallen in the last 24h - it’s been there for weeks. This is a widespread area and should not be subject to the minor grid resolution issues.
Also, the clouds are complete nonsense - it’s clear as a bell up there today, as evidenced by the live cameras (plus others polled).
It’d be nice to have some transparency as to where the sim is getting it’s snow and/or weather info. I feel like you guys are getting the short end of the stick, and we are, also, by extension. But it’s not doing anyone any good to keep trying to figure it out when it matches no versions of reality or even data. It makes no sense.
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Exactly THIS ^^^
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