Using Meteoblue to understand in-game weather, an exposé

[MetalPlains3097]

@SkipTalbot

I think that’s what’s actually holding us back from flight planning though: The state of the weather engine in Flight Simulator is in. At worst it’s an early alpha where it’s missing major features (remember live winds were largely broken at launch, humidity and visibility are still almost entirely missing), or at best a buggy beta (like how my weather data is off by 12 hours). I think if the weather engine actually worked as advertised, you’d simply use whatever weather tools you normally use for flight planning. You’d go and download METARs from whatever site, and the simulator’s model based weather would be close enough that they’d still be usable.

Yes I agree with you. I am not saying that it is working properly far from it. Maybe I wasn’t clear in my post, I thought it would have been from the preceding posts.

My worry was that with so many posts complaining about the live weather not working at all, i.e people getting clear skies and standard pressure and temps, especially when doing a second flight after returning to the main menu, Asobo would think that the live weather was fixed if this didn’t occur and people we always able to get the live weather working. I think there have been far more complaints about that than our issue which is having a way of predicting the sim weather for flight planning purposes.