What’s the deal with Meteoblue?

[themachine 13]

223/3 aloft issue fixed.  Inaccurate wind speeds at ground level still NOT fixed, worldwide.

 https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/wind-testing-inconsistencies-throughout/240358

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/wind-speeds-still-too-low-at-ground-level-post-patch-2/274436

 

[Brandon01110 407]

21 minutes ago, tull said:

I've been flying in Europe from day one with this simulator, theres nothing wrong with the bloody weather....its been accurate for me ...bloody same topics over and over again....bloodyhell.....

Have you considered that maybe a lot of other people not in your geographic area ARE having problems?  bloodyhell........

[Karelpatch 29]

9 hours ago, rtodepart said:

If your idea was to start a "Lets talk down on MeteoBlue " thread  you just failed . Just so that you know in real life apps with the same source sometimes are not updated at the same time and there could be sometimes inaccurate info on one side compared to the other that at a later time finally updates to be accurate on both ends . 

I’m sorry but giving me this intention is just so stupid. This is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 forum and the sim uses Meteoblue data for its live weather. I’ve watched the promo video where they explain how they model the entire world weather accurately and it’s just awesome to watch. Now I remember that in the video they were saying they also used world METARs in their model and I was just pointing to the fact that LDDU airport had strong winds and Meteoblue was the only weather app out of 4 others I use that was showing calm winds. I thought this was problematic enough to address the issue.

 

Edit: the weather was also updated at the same time as LDDU METAR when it showed 8kts winds instead of more than 20.

Edited September 18, 2020 by Karelpatch

[Karelpatch 29]

8 hours ago, tull said:

I've been flying in Europe from day one with this simulator, theres nothing wrong with the bloody weather....its been accurate for me ...bloody same topics over and over again....bloodyhell.....

Dubrovnik is in Europe.

[Karelpatch 29]

9 hours ago, JRBarrett said:

Even in the Windy app itself, you will see a definite difference in predicted wind speeds on the animated map, depending on whether you use the US GFS forecast model or the European ECMWF model. 

Absolutely. I don’t trust forecast models. They are just helping in decision making. I was only pointing out that Windy was showing the obvious: strong winds. When there is a strong winds national alert a day before and all sorts of warnings about strong winds everywhere I was worried/surprised when I saw that Meteoblue was completely out of the loop.

[rtodepart 761]

44 minutes ago, Karelpatch said:

I’m sorry but giving me this intention is just so stupid. This is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 forum and the sim uses Meteoblue data for its live weather. I’ve watched the promo video where they explain how they model the entire world weather accurately and it’s just awesome to watch. Now I remember that in the video they were saying they also used world METARs in their model and I was just pointing to the fact that LDDU airport had strong winds and Meteoblue was the only weather app out of 4 others I use that was showing calm winds. I thought this was problematic enough to address the issue.

 

Edit: the weather was also updated at the same time as LDDU METAR when it showed 8kts winds instead of more than 20.

Hope you felt really good by using the word stupid 👌 you sounded like you did. Good for you .  this different weather issues had been talked over and over again and are being worked on . to start another thread just to point out what many of us including the ones working on this that already know just felt like another useless complaint thats had been beaten to dead .  
even after this is all corrected to your liking Im going to repeat this for you from someone who had been flying for some years now . In the real actual world we fly around many times the data is not accurate in all platforms.there may be many times where numbers wont match . I dont know you but if you ever take on real world flying one day while checking the weather report you’ll probably  remember me . Yeah that Stupid guy was right. Hope you have a great day or night in whatever part of the world you’re in . 

[CJ1045 469]

When I looked at Meteoblue yesterday there was a big change in the winds in the evening, hour to hour, from light to strong. So depending on whether there was a lag in the data being observed then there would be a big difference in the wind condtions shown. I think that is the cause of the apparent problems initially observed by the OP.

[Karelpatch 29]

10 hours ago, rtodepart said:

Hope you felt really good by using the word stupid 👌 you sounded like you did. Good for you .  this different weather issues had been talked over and over again and are being worked on . to start another thread just to point out what many of us including the ones working on this that already know just felt like another useless complaint thats had been beaten to dead .  
even after this is all corrected to your liking Im going to repeat this for you from someone who had been flying for some years now . In the real actual world we fly around many times the data is not accurate in all platforms.there may be many times where numbers wont match . I dont know you but if you ever take on real world flying one day while checking the weather report you’ll probably  remember me . Yeah that Stupid guy was right. Hope you have a great day or night in whatever part of the world you’re in . 

I think that you missed the point I wasn’t talking about MSFS but about Meteoblue. A 7 minutes old METAR from an international airport stating there are strong winds in the middle of a global warning for strong winds is hardly inaccurate. Meteoblue showing calm winds with a weather updated at the same time as the METAR, that’s unexpected inaccuracy. I’m not talking about forecasts here. 

[Karelpatch 29]

10 hours ago, CJ1045 said:

When I looked at Meteoblue yesterday there was a big change in the winds in the evening, hour to hour, from light to strong. So depending on whether there was a lag in the data being observed then there would be a big difference in the wind condtions shown. I think that is the cause of the apparent problems initially observed by the OP.

This is probably the case yes. What mislead me was that the report was shown as « 5 minutes old. » 

It isn’t impossible that there are some technical issues behind this kind of lag.