Hi all, not an urgent matter at all, just a question. Where do the real world weather downloads come from and how often do they update? I have been patiently witing for the rain to start at KEWR all day :) It started raining about 1/2 hour ago in real life, weather.com is showing rain in KEWR but ASV still shows no precip. I was just wondering where it gets its info from and how often it updates?Thanks in advance,Happy Festivus,-PaulLiquid CooledAMD 4000 San Diego2 Gigs Kingston Corsair XMS CL2Dual 7800 GTX 24 inch widescreen dual 19 inch LCDRaid-0

Hi Paul,Data is from MANY weather sources. Data is typically refreshed at the top of each hour. Then, it takes about 15 minutes for the AS servers to pull all the data from the sources, process it and have it ready for you.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Sales and Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_dev_team.jpg http://www.hifisim.com/images/asv_proud_supporter.jpg

Hi,Just to add... it typically takes anywhere from 10-40 minutes for a report to make it from the originating station, to the network system, to the source(s) that we download from, to our servers, to our output databases, to our published output files, and finally to the client during an update. This doesn't account for the delay in reports, which basically occur every hour. If it started raining just after the original non-rain report was made, it will take an hour for the report of rain to even go out.To compare, this is roughly about the same as looking up weather via NOAA ADDS METAR reports.Best,

Psolk,While waiting for the rain to come, perhaps you can listen to "Here comes the rain again" from the Eurythmics (from the mid-1980's)! I just had to write this for your post is, well, really cute for it is an indication of how dedicated and involved us flightsimmers get. I too am like you but never really waited for it to rain, maybe because I don't fly out of Montreal much or at least my flights do not coincide with rainy / snowy weather.Though your question really helped me too for reference purposes - it is very helpful to know how often we the flightsimmers can actually expect to see the real-world weather on our desktop.John