That tallies pretty much with my RL experience here in Nuremberg … but one thing’s for certain, there will be plenty more before winter returns.
There is not possible to observe distanced storm. You need to enter the storm area and then you can expect some flashes around. When you leave area that game recognize as an active storm - the lightnings disappear.
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Honestly, its potluck. A TS was happening over Baton Rouge yestersay, and it was a major one but nothing triggered.
Yet the storm in Spain i saw did, and that was a relatively small storm. It’s really luck of the draw i think
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I had a Raging Thunderstorm with Lightning over Winnipeg (CYWG) as I was going through my checklist today…
With hardly a cloud in the sky!
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I’ve seen it mentioned the weather is rendered in tiles, think of it like a tile floor. Here and there a tile is marked as TS,as you fly over the TS tile you will get lightning, once you fly past it the lightning stops.
To date I’ve seen 1 TS occurring in Florida, I fly mostly on the east coast and flew over many cold fronts in the spring/winter that had real life active lines of TS’s but none of it was rendered in the game.
I’ve spawned at airports which had heavy precipitation due to TS’s purposefully to see how it was depicted in game and saw only rain.
Heck I’ve spawned at airports which even show the lightning indicator on World Map current weather and still got only rain.
In FS2004 I used to just put a building storms theme with a rate of change and random pop-up thunderstorms would develope and die out randomly and cloud heights would raise and fall (thousands of feet high).
Would love to see that randomness be included but this is a different weather engine and not capable of dynamic offline themes….themes are static.
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I saw a ton of it in Texas yesterday.
Clouds rarely climb above 15000 feet, its a little bizarre. Also, when you see the clouds building assumably due to the moving air simulation, there is relatively no turbulence. It just feels wrong!
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It will be a good test to fly out of southern England Heathrow, Gatwick the weekend we have thunderstorm Warnings from Saturday to end of Sunday been flawless weather the last 3weeks 
good energy build up about to give way
Me neither. The last time I saw lightning in Live Weather was literally in July 2022, and it wasn’t even good. Also, I almost always fly in Live Weather and often in areas that are prone to thunderstorms (Florida, South-East Asia etc.).
Here is what I wrote back then:
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I’m seeing plenty of it in SE Asia on a flight from WMKK to RPLL over my left wing. Exactly where it should be.
Massive storms in Austin, Texas right now. The METAR shows: KAUS 220053Z 28012G34KT 1 1/2SM +TSRA BR SCT030 BKN049CB BKN055 24/22 A2984 RMK AO2 PK WND 32038/0039 LTG DSNT ALQDS RAB37 TSB15 SLP093 FROPA FRQ LTGICCCCG OHD TS OHD MOV SE P0012 T02390217
Lots of lightning reported.
Here’s using LW:
Sitting for 5 minutes and nothing.
Using another weather option (Xenviro) and instant flashes and thunder sounds, you can see the bolt there. Hard to capture.
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Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
No.
Have you disabled/removed all your mods and addons?
Yes
Brief description of the issue:
No thunder and lightning even where it’s shown as the current conditions in the world map.
Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:
I won’t send a screenshot of “no lightning happening” it would be silly me thinks.
Provide coordinates (DevMode > Options > Display position)
Worldwide
Provide time & date of the observed Weather issue:
Since SU7
Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
I used to chase storms in MSFS. There are none where they should be.
PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:
NA
Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
SU7
yesterday i spent hours to fly into thunderstorms over germany … no thunder, no lighting… just nothing.
Before the aggressive METAR blending was introduced, thunderstorms appeared reliably in the areas where Meteoblue data indicated them. It is impossible to consistently, in space and in time, represent a thunderstorm where 2 sources disagree. Disagreement is unavoidable because METAR is like a still image, compared with a movie. They only agree at a single time instance.
Therefore, METAR is literally a bug, introduced into the MSFS weather simulation.
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I’d change introduced to voted in by the community. 
The TS’s are trash in FS2020. When you do see the miracle of real time weather lightning, it propagates from thin cloud layers and looks nothing like a proper thunderstorm.
I’ve thrown in the towel and do not expect any improvement here for the rest of this sims life.
Onto FS2024 IF the weather engine is improved…..if not I’ll just stick to 2020.
Looking forward to what the early adopters say about TS in 2024.
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Same, and if the weather engine is really good at release i will check the forum if there is complains. If it is i bet the weather engine we have at release will be completely changed into something else. That has been the main issue for me.
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same here, I will only jump on the 2024 if the weather has real improvements over this one, which still it’s not fair since there are recognized bugs here interfering with live weather, and who knows if they will ever be fixed..
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An incomplete game being overshadowed by a newer version of the same game developed by the same company who were already stretched thin enough with one version and now have to concurrently support/develop two. The rest you can figure out. Unless they’re saving one big update that somehow fixes everything they have as bug/feedback logged I don’t see anything drastically changing.
Fortunately my real life is picking up and starting to get busier so I won’t have time to fuss and worry about this stuff.
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These are three apps Asobo really needs partner with that would greatly improve live weather quality
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Radar Omega
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Windy
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my lightning tracker app
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