How do you get hard winter in the sim?  I set the date in Minneapolis's Flying Cloud airport one month out to December and found no snow on the ground.  I then changed it to January and still no snow which never happens in real life.  Thanks for any help with this.

You can't.  Seasons aren't in the sim (yet).  You can only trigger snow, which will cover the ground gradually, but there are no hard winter textures as the sim uses mainly Bing textures from non-winter seasons.

The only way around it is to go to weather and set 100% snow.  You will get some then! 🤣

Edited November 14, 20205 yr by bobcat999

Just now, bobcat999 said:

You can't.  Seasons aren't in the sim (yet).  You can only trigger snow, which will cover the ground gradually, but there are no hard winter textures as the sim uses mainly Bing textures from non-winter seasons.

How are people getting snow covering the ground?

Probably using the pop up weather icon and creating snow then turning it back to clear skies

17 minutes ago, Dillon said:

How are people getting snow covering the ground?

The weather menu has a slider for snow on the ground.

13 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

Probably using the pop up weather icon and creating snow then turning it back to clear skies

I guess that's it!  Thanks.  

37 minutes ago, Dillon said:

I guess that's it!  Thanks.  

No, that's not it. There literally is a slider called "Snow Depth" in the weather menu.

It really is quite easy to figure out if you look at the weather menu.

I have found raising the ambient temp can melt icing on the windscreen, so this may apply to snow as well.  Try setting the temp to minus degrees celcius and it should settle and not melt if you want to simulate hard winter.

3 hours ago, crimplene said:

No, that's not it. There literally is a slider called "Snow Depth" in the weather menu.

Thanks.

 

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

It really is quite easy to figure out if you look at the weather menu.

I have found raising the ambient temp can melt icing on the windscreen, so this may apply to snow as well.  Try setting the temp to minus degrees celcius and it should settle and not melt if you want to simulate hard winter.

Thanks.

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

It really is quite easy to figure out if you look at the weather menu.

I have found raising the ambient temp can melt icing on the windscreen, so this may apply to snow as well.  Try setting the temp to minus degrees celcius and it should settle and not melt if you want to simulate hard winter.

Snow doesn't pile up dynamically, you have to use the depth slider.

4 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

You can't.  Seasons aren't in the sim (yet).  You can only trigger snow, which will cover the ground gradually, but there are no hard winter textures as the sim uses mainly Bing textures from non-winter seasons.

The only way around it is to go to weather and set 100% snow.  You will get some then! 🤣

Yes but isn't the underlying grass still bright green as well as the leaves on the trees?

19 minutes ago, Kilo60 said:

Yes but isn't the underlying grass still bright green as well as the leaves on the trees?

Tall grass and trees turn white. But yes leaves are still there.

Meteoblue does track snow depth, so I wonder if in whatever future seasons update they do that they'll use that.

Edited November 14, 20205 yr by Tuskin38