What Kind of Live is Live Weather?

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Hello, forum, and merry Christmas to those celebrating it.

This may be a confusing question because I may be confused and phrasing it confusingly, but I’ll do my best. I’m also sorry if it’s been discussed to death already but I am a terrible searcher.

When using Live Weather, I wondered if the system takes account of local time for the area I’m flying in, or if it fixes the Live Weather solely to the current real-world time.

And since that sounds like a self-obviously dumb thing to ask, what I’m wanting to clarify is whether ‘Live’ means live-right-now-as-I-run-the-sim, or live-for-the-time-I’ve-set-based-on-MeteoBlue’s-logs.

See, thing is, if Live Weather and Real Time were fixed together, I’d get real-world weather for right now. I’m in the UK, so my time currently maps to Zulu/UTC. So if I fly right now, in the UK, I should get the late-dawn 10°C, 6-knot winds and scattered clouds I have outside. But, if I want to fly in, say, Portland, Oregon, with both settings on it’ll be twenty to one in the morning and I’ll get Portland’s midnight weather.

But if I set a day flight in Oregon - say 10:00 yesterday - I can still leave Live Weather active. The settings for real time and real weather are independent - at least in that direction. But in that case, does the system draw weather data for 10:00 yesterday in Oregon as ‘Live Weather’, or would it still apply the conditions that are current right now: midnight weather in mid-morning?

There must have been an easier way to convey that question. Probably just cutting everything but the last paragraph would’ve helped, but I’ve already sealed the envelope.

And I’m just basically being lazy because, given there’s no way to simply paste in a METAR and have the sim parse it into the weather settings - which I’ve always thought is rather a shame - going through those weather settings manually is a bit of a chore. I’ll keep on doing it if need be, but if Live Weather does account for local set time, it’d be easier.

Thanks for reading and your efforts to make head or tails of this gibberish. I appreciate it. Now where - and, equally importantly, why - is that eggnog?

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Live weather is (or should be) pretty much what is going on at that moment in that location (allowing for delays etc.)

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Nobody knows cause it’s not working

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Basically, in other words, there’s no historical weather implemented in MSFS :frowning:

The feature, although requested by the community is highly complex to implement with the current data process architecture in the current version of MSFS (cf. the last LIVE Dev Q/A).

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As mentioned above, the weather is to a degree, real time weather.
There is no historical function.
Basically, the live weather in the sim is based on Metars around an airport, and the forecasted (not actual) weather from Meteo Blue.

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That’s great. Thank you all for the replies. I have to admit I do find it a little tedious having to try to translate METAR data into the settings that Flight Sim uses to try to match weather for times other than my current real-world time. I rather hoped I’d misunderstood and that Live Weather would actually do it for me. But I guess not.

I appreciate the advice, though, thank you again.