Hello AllAs some of you may be all too aware of, a lot of the UK is now covered in snow. However, for the life of me, I can't get this to show up in FSX.I'm currently running with UTX, GEX and ASE for the weather. Are there any settings within these addons that can 'trigger' the displaying of snow covered grounds textures, or is it for instance, the fact that the geographical position of the UK versus the time of year is preventing FSX from doing so?I seem to remember that when I used FS9 with GE Pro and AS, if it snowed in the UK, I would see this reflected in the sim.Any ideas much appreciatedGary

As I understand it...By default FS will not use the "hard winter" (i.e. snow covered) textures for the UK in winter. It will only load them if the weather in the sim is actually snowing.I'm not too far from you, and it only snowed here overnight from Saturday to Sunday. There's still a covering of snow on the ground but if I use real weather via ASE or REX it will not give me snow covered terrain because of the above - FS doesn't know that it was snowing a few days ago and that the ground is still covered in snow. It sees that the current weather is not snowing and so it just goes with the default winter textures instead of the hard winter ones.If you want to see snow on the ground I'd say your best bet would be to load the sim and set the weather theme to "winter wonderland" or something similar. Let it load the sim with the snow covered textures, and then once in the sim you can start ASE and let it load the current real weather.

I wouldn't be too hasty to add snow to the UK, Gary. If we have more than a centimetre, the entire country grinds to a halt. You may find that most of the airports are closed until it melts :(

I wouldn't be too hasty to add snow to the UK, Gary. If we have more than a centimetre, the entire country grinds to a halt. You may find that most of the airports are closed until it melts :(

Substitute one centimetre for one snowflake! Once while walking from the City to Waterloo (a 25 minute walk) it started snowing and finished 5 minutes before I walked into the station. Only to find "all" the trains had been cancelled due to snow!vololiberista

It was snowing in Alderney last month :(George

Keep burning fossile fuels at the current rate speeding up global warming and thus increase the melting of the polar ice caps. This will cause the freshwater density in the Atlantic ocean to increase thus shutting down the Gulf Stream thrusting Europe into an ice age. Lotsa snow!

Edited February 8, 201214 yr by Barnstormer1

They cancelled a thrid of all departures from Heathrow last week before a single flake of snow actually fellIAN

Europe into an ice age. Lotsa snow!

I love snow! :(

Current forecast for my area is heavy snow from tomorrow evening (Thurs night) into the wee hours of Saturday morning.Wheeee....more work for the 2 plows and 3 gritters assigned to Lincs lol.

LIMZ has had 80cms!vololiberista

If you want to see snow on the ground I'd say your best bet would be to load the sim and set the weather theme to "winter wonderland" or something similar. Let it load the sim with the snow covered textures, and then once in the sim you can start ASE and let it load the current real weather.

Just out of interest, I found the most reliable way to ensure that I got to see snow on the ground was to use ASE's Historical option with the time/date set to midnight on Saturday (5th). Result - loads of snow.RegardsGary

Snow cancelled.Local council cannot afford it.We now return to the regular British schedule of dull grey sky and possible freezing rain.Humbug.

I created an addon season bgl file which uses the snow coverage data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center. Coverage is the entire northern hemisphere using data from 2012 Feb 08. When using this addon, the snow coverage will be used from 1-29 Feb, then revert to default on 1 Mar (until next year, unless you remember to delete it!)http://www.files.com/set/4f3700de8897dscott s..