5 posts were split to a new topic: Unable to set Weather Presets in Normal Flight
Nearly a week on and live weather still massively bugged and not working correctly, if only these sort of issues got as much assistance as the issues with Azure severs.
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Good morning, do you know of any further information on the bug topic discussed here which is impacting UK/Irish airports with the clouds resetting/disappearing?
Itās been marked as investigating at the beginning of the week, any info would be much appreciated 
Hi @utd4life12,
No, I have no further information on:
and:
Nor do I have any timeline on when either of these issues will be resolved.
Thanks for your reply.
I hope the examples given in the first thread you linked which is marked as āinvestigatingā give the team enough info to find a fix soon - it makes flying in the UK/Ireland with live weather unusable which is a real shame for those of us based in the UK who want to fly in and out of those airports with live weather.
Although I can appreciate fully if youāre not flying in the UK/Ireland it might not seem like a big issue, but for those of us that fly out of these locations it puts the brakes on any flying at all. Thanks again.
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One World, One Community
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So we are told, it would sure be nice to feel that way too.
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Is this issue only affecting users who are flying out of UK airports and are physically located in the UK, or does it happen to those who spawn at a UK airport no matter where they are in the world?
I have been out of town and am doing my first MSFS flight in two weeks. I am currently flying from KDFW to KRDU and there is not a cloud to be seen anywhere, but in this case it appears accurate because the r/t NOAA satellite imagery shows the sky is basically cloud-free over most of my route. I might see some clouds over Georgia, but I will not be there for another 45 minutes.
From what we can see it affects users who are flying out of UK or Irish airports, regardless of their physical location in the world. I believe some of the reports on the bug topic for this, are users based in Europe but also have the same issue with UK/Irish airports, and not just airports but the whole airspace over the UK and Ireland too, the live weather has this bug.
If you get chance, maybe you can test by loading into a UK airport that should be cloudy and see if you also observe the bug.
I spawned at Liverpool, EGGP and my starting position was at the main terminal, facing north. The METAR was 700 foot overcast with light rain, winds 300 at 17 knots. I started the test at 22:25Z, today, 08 September.
Initially there was indeed a solid low overcast with light rain. By 22:30 Z the rain stopped and the overcast slowly changed to a broken layer. It never got any ābetterā than broken. The clouds were visibly moving with the wind. At 22:40, I went to external view and spun around to look south. The solid overcast layer was still present, but was moving away to the south. Right now, at 22:46Z there is an area over lower clouds to the north, and it looks like it is raining beneath the clouds. That overcast layer is definitely moving toward my location, and if I wait a few more minutes, I assume I will once again have low overcast with rain.
So in summary, I am not seeing the reported problem where all clouds disappear after a few minutes. The weather scenario is quite dynamic, and about what I would expect to see with heavy showers moving with the prevailing wind.
It is now 22:53 and solid overcast is definitely returning from the north, and it just started raining again.
My physical location is central New York State in the US. I assume I am connected to the US East server.
Hi, thanks for testing Liverpool, itās really interesting to hear you didnāt experience the same issue myself and others have been seeing. Maybe your āphysicalā location has some impact? I did try previously connecting to USA via a VPN to try and change my location but I still experienced the bug with clouds, but maybe a VPN isnāt enough to change some server in the background.
Yes, itās hard to say how a VPN might affect what servers you connect to. I do know that when MSFS is running, the scenery stream, live weather, multiplayer, real time traffic etc. all come from separate discrete servers which may be located in a variety of different data centers.
From what I saw last night, the initial weather conditions when I spawned into EGGP were set to the current METAR, but the weather dynamically began to change because of the strong low-level northerly wind. The initial solid overcast moved south to be replaced by broken clouds, then a new area of overcast began to approach from the north. That is actually quite a realistic way of doing things and prevents the weather from being absolutely static and fixed to the last METAR for a whole hour.
Perhaps for those physically located in the UK, and connected to UK-based MS servers, that process somehow goes wrong, leading to the clouds completely disappearing as time goes by.
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I have noticed the behaviour you are describing at an airport in France directly after I documented the obvious buggy behaviour at EGGP, because I wanted to find out if the bug is limited to the UK and Ireland. And I agree with your assumption, that probably what we were encountering is how the simulation handles changing weather conditions, like when the weather model calls for showers or thereās TEMP in the METAR. If you donāt watch this process faster than in real time you get the impression of approaching cloud systems.
However, speeding up that process looks very similar to what happens with the buggy weather, with the exception that at some point the cloud coverage starts to grow again BEFORE it completely dissolves.
So maybe there is some trigger missing, when the bug occurs.