Saw a beautiful rendered cloud formation today at around 22:30Z
Wanted to take a closer look at it, as it was a bit far in the distance when i spotted it. As i move closer with the drone camera, I saw the switch of the cloud go from detailed and smooth, to generic puffy clouds but still maintaining the general formation shape, prior to the switch.
Before switch
After switch
The more screenshots the better! Also interesting to me that this time the switch wasn’t at the usual time at 8AM.
Meteoblue would blend in the last hour of the previous forecast into their models like they do with the METAR data to keep it flowing smoothly. I never saw hard transitions in the clouds before SU7 and I flew a lot before that update. Something else is going on here. As evidence in this thread shows the clouds simply break down. One moment the cloud engine is able to depict a unique variety of cohesive stretched out shapes and then suddenly the best it can do is piecing them together out of generic cumulus assets for the rest of the day.
Only 76 votes for this? 
This should be a top priority!.
I’m getting nice banks of weather right now, 23:07 UK time.
And at least feedback-logged !
Just for the record, just had a switch from reasonably good pre-su7 style clouds to the usual puffy cumulus rubbish clouds at EGBB - 18:25z
i really really hope we will finally see huge improvements in SU11
I remember saying the same thing about SU8, then 9, then 10…
Yes, same hope here 
, let’s wait for SU11 Beta release notes to find out what comes about weather…
Never experienced hard transitions like this before su7
Maybe your post should better go there: Weather transition is not smooth after SU7
Yes, of course. Honestly su7 introduced so many issues I can’t keep up which thread to post to. It’s all related. Simpler if they revert and go back to pre-su7 weather rather than trying to save this chimera.
Sometimes it’s like using a different sim, like right now for me generally looks very good
This is the sort of weather I usually see early morning UK, which then changes to generic cumulus around 0700z
Anyone still seeing this? So far SU11 beta has been great for this issue. Clouds look amazing, nice overcasts and no weird, instant changes to Cumulous.
I still see abrupt changes. I also still see a silhouette of the sun ( with eminating rays ) that is supposed to be completely hidden by thick clouds.
See Screenshot - taken in HDR - sorry that its blown out, but you get the idea…
Does anybody know if this is still happening? I don’t have many chances to try that early, but i was just wondering…
Will test it when I get the chance.
I don’t think so sadly. I think what we were seeing was the metar system slowly breaking and when it finally broke (those weeks where we had amazing skies again, prior to those two days of clear skies globally) they must have fixed whatever caused this.
Back to seeing the boring and frankly inaccurate cumulus clouds all over since that was “fixed”. I also noticed, the metar bubbles seem to interfere a lot more with “non covered” areas, so now the sim just doesn’t paint for example a overcast layer, where there should be one. I can consistently see this around my local airport (ekah), the last few days have been almost constant overcast. But the sim just doesnt care, it draws a basically clear skies day, just around the city and extending further into the mainland. The airport right next to it, fully covered in clouds and the coverage consistently ends around the same place.
I can’t fathom what is going on here, because IIRC even Asobo said that metar data shouldn’t interfere with meteoblue clouds.
I haven’t been able to get those pre SU7 clouds shown before 0700Z consistently since the server migration. I think they patched it up and we are not supposed to receive the old live weather clouds.
But, there is still a way to see them.
Switch to preset weather at 15min past the hour. Wait till half past and switch to live weather. Observe the improved clouds for a few seconds.
I think the weather updates hourly some time during this period and in preset mode the sim doesn’t post-process the new live weather cloud data until switching back.
