This looks interesting...

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/unreal-weather-live-metar-mod/287470

On 10/3/2020 at 10:33 AM, RobJC said:

This looks interesting...

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/unreal-weather-live-metar-mod/287470

I just tried this as it is currently snowing north of Toronto this morning, I also checked the Metar and it was spot on to the sim and in the sim the weather was depicted correctly and there was snow on the ground !

Tried the same test with MSFS live weather and it appeared to be raining with no snow coverage on the ground. 

Will have to give this some further testing 

I use it for a couple of weeks and really love it.
Best depiction so far.

If you want to know where it is snowing so you can test this new feature, use this site: https://www.badbadweather.com/

It’s ok....but the weather transitions are a killer takes me back 10 years.  
 

If this is really important  and you need close metar for online flying then a good workaround is to activate the mod on departure/arrival but use Asobo live weather enroute.  

1 minute ago, sidfadc said:

It’s ok....but the weather transitions are a killer takes me back 10 years.  
 

If this is really important  and you need close metar for online flying then a good workaround is to activate the mod on departure/arrival but use Asobo live weather enroute.  

 

That what I do, only use Unreal Weather for departure and arrival.

Did you try it since version 1.6? The transitions were improved, they are much better now. I almost don't notice them.

1 minute ago, Alvega said:

 

That what I do, only use Unreal Weather for departure and arrival.

Did you try it since version 1.6? The transitions were improved, they are much better now. I almost don't notice them.

No actually so I might check it out!

Just tried in KSLK to see if there was snow. First image is live weather, second is Unreal Weather.

Metar: KSLK 041651Z AUTO 23008KT 7SM -SN OVC028 01/M03 A2981 RMK AO2 SNB48 SLP112 P0000 T00111028

 

 

 

It was snowing with Unreal Weather, very nice.

Edited December 4, 20205 yr by Alvega

I tried to install following the instructions but it isn't showing in my presets.  Is there anything else that needs to be completed before it shows up?

go to this site

https://unrealweather.blogspot.com/

download the latest version 1.7 as of today

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bi368VP2dtbBV5jq6FVXa2Fw2-UIyokh/view?usp=sharing

extract the file to your download folder

double click UnrealWeatherLiveMetar 1.7

again double click UnrealWeatherLiveMetar 1.7

double click the version of FS2020 you have probably 1.10.7.0-1.11.5.0

copy the file 'unreal-weather-live-metar' to your FS2020 community folder

go to this site

https://account.avwx.rest/

create an account, login, after you have logged in, generate an API token, by hitting the "+" sign in the toolbar at the top

copy the generated token value, as you will need it to use the mod:

navigate to the following folder

Community\unreal-weather-live-metar\html_ui\Templates\WeatherEditionMenu\

You should see the following 2 files in that folder:

WeatherEditionMenu.html
WeatherEditionMenu.js

open the WeatherEditionMenu.js file in any plain text editor, such as Notepad or Notepad++, and add your API token to it.

at the top of the file, locate the line that references the metar_api_key variable and insert you API token between the two single quotes as shown below:

metar_api_key: 'insert API token here',

close and save the file

start FS2020, select "UNREAL WEATHER - LIVE METAR"

John

 

Do you need to generate an API token for each flight / sim start?

13 minutes ago, johnh1984 said:

go to this site

https://unrealweather.blogspot.com/

download the latest version 1.7 as of today

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bi368VP2dtbBV5jq6FVXa2Fw2-UIyokh/view?usp=sharing

extract the file to your download folder

double click UnrealWeatherLiveMetar 1.7

again double click UnrealWeatherLiveMetar 1.7

double click the version of FS2020 you have probably 1.10.7.0-1.11.5.0

copy the file 'unreal-weather-live-metar' to your FS2020 community folder

go to this site

https://account.avwx.rest/

create an account, login, after you have logged in, generate an API token, by hitting the "+" sign in the toolbar at the top

copy the generated token value, as you will need it to use the mod:

navigate to the following folder

Community\unreal-weather-live-metar\html_ui\Templates\WeatherEditionMenu\

You should see the following 2 files in that folder:

WeatherEditionMenu.html
WeatherEditionMenu.js

open the WeatherEditionMenu.js file in any plain text editor, such as Notepad or Notepad++, and add your API token to it.

at the top of the file, locate the line that references the metar_api_key variable and insert you API token between the two single quotes as shown below:

metar_api_key: 'insert API token here',

close and save the file

start FS2020, select "UNREAL WEATHER - LIVE METAR"

John

 

Weird.. That is the exact steps that i dd.

12 minutes ago, mdreyer said:

Do you need to generate an API token for each flight / sim start?

No it is a one time process

John

Just now, johnh1984 said:

No it is a one time process

John

Thanks John.

Just remember to backup that API key on a text file because you will need it each time Unreal Weather is updated. You delete the old version, put the new version in the community folder (I have it on the Utililities folder of Addons Linker) and then insert the key again.