this is how things look most of Mar, Apr and May in my country (Saudi Arabia), is MSFS going to simulate these conditions as accurate as possible?

 

Edited March 5, 20206 yr by penta_a
corrected photo link

They haven't talked about season support yet.  Although they put out a Let It Snow video.  They do pull live weather, so maybe that is enough if it is just heavy rain and wind.  If it is a sand or dust storm, then do those show up in the weather reports?  (I assume this is dust or sand storm, not sure though.)

So not sure if they will.   But trying to avoid a sand storm, or getting caught in one, would be cool.  So I hope they do.

19 minutes ago, GlideBy said:

They haven't talked about season support yet.  Although they put out a Let It Snow video.  They do pull live weather, so maybe that is enough if it is just heavy rain and wind.  If it is a sand or dust storm, then do those show up in the weather reports?  (I assume this is dust or sand storm, not sure though.)

So not sure if they will.   But trying to avoid a sand storm, or getting caught in one, would be cool.  So I hope they do.

Interesting question... I don't know if there's a METAR designation for a dust- & sand-storms - other than a visibility change / limitation? 

34 minutes ago, Anders Bermann said:

Interesting question... I don't know if there's a METAR designation for a dust- & sand-storms - other than a visibility change / limitation? 

It seems there is:

Nice.  I notice the scale goes up to 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter.  (They may record higher values.)  I don't know what 1,000 looks like, so I looked it up and found some sample pictures.  https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015-04/16/content_20450605.htm

There are a few more pictures on that site from the same sandstorm.

6 hours ago, Anders Bermann said:

I don't know if there's a METAR designation for a dust- & sand-storms - other than a visibility change / limitation? 

There very much is, the codes DU (dust), SA (sand), DS (dust storm), Hz (haze) and SS (sand storm) cover this.

To provide a little more detail:

At the very least, I think they will have accurate visibility when it comes to dust, etc. Whether it'll be tinted to look like dust, I'd guess not on release, but who knows. 

When I fly in North Africa in real life, being in the dust layer just looks like really thick haze. Then at a certain altitude, you break out and it's just this hard line across the sky. 

What's funny is that it looks fake, like something simmers would complain about not being "realistic" if it were simulated in the sim. 

Edited March 5, 20206 yr by bonchie

Very interesting and I think these phenomenons could be translated basically as a visibility / fog layer with a specific hues of colors as mentioned above...

Edited March 5, 20206 yr by Claviateur

32 minutes ago, bonchie said:

Then at a certain altitude, you break out and it's just this hard line across the sky. 

What's funny is that it looks fake, like something simmers would complain about not being "realistic" if it were simulated in the sim.

I see that fairly often in P3D with Active Sky.  It's actually pretty cool.

I suspect they'll get the colors right, plus whatever color the sun and sky add to the haze. 

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2 hours ago, ckyliu said:

There very much is, the codes DU (dust), SA (sand), DS (dust storm), Hz (haze) and SS (sand storm) cover this.

Thanks for that. Was looking for that one. 🙂

 

Hi,

Interesting idea. I can remember seeing dust storms and dust devils right here in the USA. It would add realism to the new MSFS. However, the development team must be hard pressed just to come up with a useful, realistic flight sim this year and encompassing many of the ideas on the forum.

Very nice find / suggestion! Would love to see this as it adds realism, immersion and challenge to flying. For those who don't want it, have option to turn it off.