Now with 737 over Bulgaria and lightnings there 
Just the observation…
Now north of LIMC First time seen in Europe !
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I’m pleased to confirm your observation. I am actually on the runway at LIMC looking around and above the airport. I’ve seen at least 20 lightning in 5 minutes…and could ear the thunders too.Great!!
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Cannot remember the last time I’ve seen lightning in the sim.
All I want from 2024 weather wise is to see a big line of thunderstorms in the distance flickering like mad with lightning.
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Go play in the hurricane. Plenty of flashes to see.
Forgive me, I only have one Tropical Storm experience in Puerto Rico, but… I don’t think hurricanes are accompanied by lightning?
I use Rex Accuseason and the Advanced Edition includes weather presets. Was testing an aircraft and wanted to check rain on windshield/windows so picked the summer storms preset. Lots of lightning and thunder in it. It was actually really nice to actually see lightning again and hear thunder claps and booms for a change. Real world weather rarely has it in my experience.
The sim can definitely do lightning and thunder, though.
In Texas now(Houston in yellow/red). Plenty of lightning. Hurricanes are filled with thunderstorms and spawn small tornadoes. I’ve lived through more than I can count growing up here and settling here as an adult. It’s not just wind and hard rain.
“The eyewall surrounding the eye is composed of dense clouds that contain the highest winds in the storm. The storm’s outer rainbands (often with hurricane or tropical storm-force winds) are made up of dense bands of thunderstorms ranging from a few miles to tens of miles wide and 50 to 300 miles long.” - National Weather Service(USA)
Tropical cyclones can have lightning but usually a lot less than other types of storms. They are warm core systems that need a low wind shear environment, which means a lot less charge buildup from ice particles rubbing together.
If I had time right now I’d sample the cyclone down in Texas to see what the simulator is doing with the lightning. If I had to guess there’s quite a bit down there even though actual lightning reports look pretty sporadic at the moment.
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A lot of lightning in Europe - also in the METARS - but not in the MSFS. Thats not nice. Never see lightning in live weather in Europe.
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I did, a few days ago!! Where are the thunder and lightning...? - #420 by crazyhorsejesol
There’s widespread thunderstorms across Europe this evening and not a single flash of lightning in live weather
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Kosrae (PTSA)
06:37 UTC 3-Dec-2024
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From what I’ve seen over the past 48 hours testing multiple locations with Thunderstorms, they are still missing from Live Weather in MSFS 2024.
Should we create a new bug report seeing as it’s a new sim?
Maybe a mod can help answer what is best there.
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I suspected this would be the case when I noticed the lack of any thunderstorm preview pics or anyone talking about them leading up to launch. Very disappointing among the many other things that are still not fixed or even worse than they were in 2020 (ie airport lighting…)
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Yeah, it’s extremely disappointing but not surprising.
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What a joke. A feature that was advertised as being in MSFS20, and yet it’s still not in MSFS24. They built the foundation of what could’ve been an incredible live weather system for the release of 2020, and they’ve just abandoned it. So incredibly disappointing.
But hey, you can take a nice screenshot of the Grand Canyon!
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Strange thing is, it is literally in the METARs for each airport. You could at least make it work near airports. And i don’t believe their weather provider doesn’t share lightning data.
Yeah exactly, even if they couldn’t get the enroute TS implemented they could at least implement them based on the METAR data as a start.
We will tag this with msfs-2024 and use this thread!
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