I definitely believe you. There are parts of the world that no matter how bad the storms, you likely won’t see it(I rarely, if ever, see it over the continental US, Canada, or Europe). There are others where it’s there daily. The South Pacific and Indian Oceans have it almost daily. You’ll also see it in the Caribbean and off the coast of SE USA in bad storms. I’d bet it’s in this mess off Cuba/Mexico. I’d look but I’m in the air for the next 6 hours on a flight.
I would really like to see a lightning in a snapshot taken during a flight in this sim. I haven’t seen one in almost 2 years…
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Let me see what I can do. It’s stopped on my flight for now. I’m sure I’ll see it again. Will post when it starts up again.
Right now at MYXZ
Lots over South Florida yesterday too. The lightning has always been there. It’s just a lot less common than it used to be. Set departure points on the World Map so the Live Weather Icon updates. If you click around in the tropics where the World Map is cloudy, you’ll see some storms.
Great shot!! So it works…Lucky you!! I’ll chase them on worldmap too.Thanks for the tip.
Hang around the areas I mentioned and you’ll surely see it. Good luck.
Here is the link for the Video: https://youtu.be/dHVxamt9EeM
Here is a discussion over at the Forums of Hifi (Devs of Active Sky) about implementing CBs in MSFS. The dev states the issue for the absence is a limitation in cloud height MSFS is depicting, which is about half of the value given. It has appearently been done for performance reasons.
I’ve just completed a long-haul from Madrid to San Pedro in Belize with live weather on. And as I was crossing Cuba, the sky was lighting up in the distance until it got nearer so I quickly tried my best to capture it by spamming the F12 key.
I’d never seen anything like it and was seriously gobsmacked by the effects. The way the clouds lit up and the reflections on the underside of the aircraft were impressive enough but on one occasion the lightning bolt was so close it took a second or two to fully disappear.
I was impressed, to say the least!
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Looks like thunders aren’t present in FS.
Last night there was sewere thunderstorm near LQTZ, west from LQTZ to be more precise. I loaded a flight at LQTZ, waited about 10 minutes, not a single lightning flashed.
That same thunderstorm passed near LQTZ and over my town. It was like in war zone, flashed and thunder all over the sky.
In FS it was very cloudy, but nothing else.
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Today I’ve heard some thunder boooms,
exactly at time (look at that Topic about NAV data not on TBM but C172) I’ve tried check Kathmandu airport so after have sit on rwy, booom and sounds 
There was some thunderstorm away and pretty nice coverage at place. Lucky maaaaan
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)
