Updated to the latest.  Been going to airports where there has been reports of snow.  Have live weather running.  What am I missing?

Merry (almost) Christmas

The connection between Asobo and Meteoblu has always been poor. Just another thing in the live weather that’s off. 

Occurrence of snow should be where indicated on this map:

 https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/webmap/beta/range-regional-airport_united-states-of-america_5021092#coords=4.32/46.98/-92.34&map=snowDepth~hourly~auto~sfc~none

I tested it extensively over the last few days and it is pretty closely depicted.

When using live weather: Spawn to a gate/runway with Preset 'Clear Skies', only once spawned chose 'Live Weather'. It takes a second or two to load (depending on internet/server connection). This works, at least for me every time.

Edited December 25, 20205 yr by Silicus

I downloaded the Meteoblue weather app and it shows precipitation by type around the world which will be represented in the sim.

30 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

I downloaded the Meteoblue weather app and it shows precipitation by type around the world which will be represented in the sim.

Any precip? Including rain?

When I think about it, I've never seen rain with the Live Weather setting, although there has been storm clouds and such. 

1 hour ago, scotchegg said:

I downloaded the Meteoblue weather app and it shows precipitation by type around the world which will be represented in the sim.

right on, scotch

the combo of Meteoblue & Windy apps is super useful,

found that the free Windy app has very handy METAR info,

snow can be found!
& there are nuances whether snow is falling or has fallen,

just checking out REX beta as well as native MFS Live Weather.

Edited December 25, 20205 yr by craigeaglefire
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It seems it only reads reported snow cover. I flew into KMSP last night in the middle of a snow storm. No snow on the ground (and the 3/4 nm vis reported was 11 nm in sim, go figure)... Loaded up tonight after, I'm sure, the meteoblue snow coverage data was updated, and had snow on the ground.

In the Alps ?

On 12/24/2020 at 7:19 PM, Republic3D said:

Any precip? Including rain?

When I think about it, I've never seen rain with the Live Weather setting, although there has been storm clouds and such. 

Just got poured on at KRDD in Live Weather...I marvel at how well it is depicted, and how easily it was processed, though my RTX 2070 Super needed me to dial back volumetric clouds to High and Reflections to High to get thru it.  

Edited December 27, 20205 yr by Noel

On 12/25/2020 at 5:11 AM, vbazillio said:

In the Alps ?

Guys how do you manage to get this situation, where there is snow on the ground but its not actually snowing. Every time I plug in an airport with snow on the ground and switch to Live weather, I get the white stuff from the sky.
Thanks

There is a big storm heading over the Sierras it will be interesting to see if it changes snow on the ground over what it is now.

Snow in New England.

Ice in the clouds too!

 

Good thing pitot heat and defrosters work.

Edited December 30, 20205 yr by 177B

35 minutes ago, Noel said:

There is a big storm heading over the Sierras it will be interesting to see if it changes snow on the ground over what it is now.

Really weird actually tried live weather for it the other day. Got few clouds and clear skies. Exited, restarted and got more clouds but no precip. 3rd time was a charm got heavy rain but no snow.

Live weather is really hit or miss at best. There is no correlation to actual NOAA weather products (METARS, TAFS, etc.) or airport webcams for that matter.

48 minutes ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

There is no correlation to actual NOAA weather products (METARS, TAFS, etc.) or airport webcams for that matter.

Because it's based on Meteoblue's forecasting models, it's not really 'live', but a prediction.

Edited December 30, 20205 yr by Tuskin38

1 hour ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

Live weather is really hit or miss at best. There is no correlation to actual NOAA weather products (METARS, TAFS, etc.) or airport webcams for that matter.

Considering just how dynamic actual weather is, with a rain squall here and nothing there, changing every few minutes and then socked in, to me it's kind of hard to say what's 'good enough'.  All of the last several flights I've done were very close to what was happening en route, more or less.  I live in the Front Range area near Denver CO and they say if you don't like the weather in Colorado just wait 15 minutes.  The dynamic nature of weather makes it difficult to compare real versus what's reported in NOAA weather products and then what's displayed in MSFS in terms of how well they approximate each other.   I'm more concerned about the quality of clouds, more variability in their types, effects during flight, versus concern the weather doesn't match en route actual weather as good as it perhaps could.  Do all of the various weather data sources concur always?  Again, it's just so variable in space and time very hard to nail down.

Edited December 30, 20205 yr by Noel