I can't afford to be spending money on FSMetro or AS2004 right now, but I would like a better way of finding the real weather for a location and altitude than the FS weather map, which destabilises FS from my experience and is lame.Are there any weather freeware addons that can give me an easier interface to the weather forcasts for various altitudes enroute, or allow me to get my weather from someone else but Jeppesen, who never seem to include the gusts for the UK very well... and it's hardly ever raining in Ireland!

Try freeware FS Metar. Get it here:http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/fsmetar/The best payware addon weather program in my opinion (and many others too) is FS2004. But FS Metar is the best freeware I have seen.