I live in the Southern hemisphere too, we are having a nice hot summer but in NZ areas like Milford Sound are covered in snow.
I would like to fly with live weather and real seasons, what would be the best solution?
Should I buy and use Rexx Accuseasons? Does it work with live weather? Wait for MS to fix this?
Thanks!
I’m using Rex Accuseason until seasons are implemented in MSFS to see how it compares. I do like it.
Thanks! Can you still use live weather with it? I fly mostly on Vatsim.
Yes, you can! 
That’s all I use.
I should mention that Rex Accuseason doesn’t change snow… it’s mostly vegetation. Snow is in game weather.
How do you deal with snow in areas like Milford sound in the summer?
Since this is a bug where MSFS is putting snow where it shouldn’t be, you’d have to use custom weather until the devs fix this. I hope this is done when they introduce true full seasons. I also haven’t heard when this would be implemented.
So I can’t use live weather without snow? This is really unfortunate…
Yep, you cannot disable it without disabling live weather. It’s been a thing for over two years, absolutely ridiculous that we haven’t at least been given a button to turn off snow. I downloaded Floyd’s Epic Clouds presets (free) and just use those whenever I want to fly in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, NZ Alps etc. without having my eyes assaulted by the low-res white texture infection that is live snow. It’s not perfect, but the presets are a bit more realistic with winds aloft etc. than the vanilla presets (plus they look better IMO).
I’m not very picky about the quality of the landscape but a snowy ground in the middle of the summer is something that really hurts not only my eyes buy my soul.
I agree with you they haven’t fixed it or even provided a workaround for this World Update.
It shouldn’t be so hard to measure live temperature and decide if you show snow or not in the ground…
REX AccuSeasons is the best thing out there at the moment, looks great and their automation is nice.
For Snow, your only out of sim option is REX WeatherForce. It does it much nicer than MSFS does it however it does come with it’s drawbacks.
Performance overtime / at transition is an issue (but can be worked around).
I loved it for GA, for Airliners, there were some issues with OAT at higher altitudes that messed with the engines, not sure where that stands at the moment.
Didn’t know about WeatherForce, to be honest I’m not happy about buying a payware product because the sim can’t figure out you can’t have snow with 20C temperatures but the landscapes in NZ are so nice that I might have to use that alternative mainly because I can’t find this in the issues being worked on.
MS should have done it already,season is a very immportant part of sim !
I thought (and I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong) that these types of problems occur in mountainous areas because the resolution of the MeteoBlue snow coverage data isn’t high enough. You get the same sorts of problems in the northern hemisphere in summer when flying in the fjords along the BC coast and Alaska. I have seen snow all the way to the valley bottoms there in July, even though there’s often no snow in those valleys, even in the dead of winter. There will still be snow there on the 10,000+ foot high mountains in July, but not in the valleys. MeteoBlue just says: “Meh, there’s snow here. Good enough.” That said, I do agree that it’s a bug. Trouble is, they can’t just go by temperature, because you can have left over snow on the mountaintops in summer, even though it’s 20 degrees Celsius up there.
Not sure about this, but I also wouldn’t be super surprised if their data isn’t that good for NZ in general as Metservice charges for access to it outside of NZCH, NZWN, and NZAA. - New Zealand weather has always been terrible for this reason.
If the satellite photos were taken when snow was on the ground there is nothing that is going to fix this right now until Asobo replaces the satellite image with no snow on the ground. New Meteoblue data isn’t going to fix that either.
If you are talking about the generated snow that is placed there by the sim then that’s a bug they will have to fix in the data. I am not familiar with this area myself so I don’t know what the problem is. If you load clear static weather and there is still snow on the ground then it’s in the satellite photo and this can’t be fixed without updating to an image taken in the summer months.
The satellite imagery isn’t the issue. If you’re at Milford Sound and set the weather preset to “clear skies”, the snow goes away. This is a live weather issue that has been present for quite some time.
Edit: typo
Yup with “clear skies” Milford looks really nice as it should look in the summer.
Yeah, the thing is is that if you zoom in on Meteoblue, the data IS actually really high resolution - certainly to the extent where you could have snow on the mountains surrounding Juneau, Milford, etc without it spreading into the valleys. MSFS just doesn’t use the data at this resolution for some reason.
Gotcha. Like I said I was unfamiliar with the area in the sim so I was just throwing out a possible explanation. Sounds like a live weather data bug indeed….