Its hit or miss. The areas that most obviously have snow (The rockies) have snow. I flew into an area that has lots of snow IRL and will have snow for months to come but it was summer in the sim! -14C, not a skiff of snow. The places I have flown into with snow are pretty epic, if the runways are plowed!

2 hours ago, 177B said:

Snow in New England.

Ice in the clouds too!

 

Good thing pitot heat and defrosters work.

LOL, looks like your plane is about to drop like a rock with that much ice on the wings.

 

It dumped snow last night in the Chicagoland area. Went into the sim to see if it would depict the snow fall and there wasn’t a speck of it on the ground in the sim. The other weather elements were depicted nicely though. 
 

popped over to south bend and when I clicked live weather, there was a quick one second of snow everywhere, then the weather changed to no snow on the ground and wet and rainy and nasty low vis. 
 

the meteoblue map that was linked in this thread on the first page says there should be snow on the ground.

Just went up to Iceland for a leisurely bit of VFR in the C172, sure enough there's Snow up there. I double checked by changing the Weather and seeing it disappear before going back to Live and it reappearing, whilst seeing it in place was cool it wasn't very good looking. Seems to happen in Blocks so you see straight lines on the terrain with different levels of Snow/Land. Now that could be an issue with the Bing data for Iceland itself and/or a Graphical setting perhaps, either way it looked poor overall in VR but "cool" at the same time.

I wonder if there’s some unavoidable lag in updating the source data?  I feel like snow depth might take longer to get and crunch the data than weather?  Pure speculation.

On 12/29/2020 at 7:20 PM, Cloudrider said:

Guys how do you manage to get this situation,

I really didn't do anything special. Just load Courchevel 2 or 3 days ago 😉

On 12/25/2020 at 3:19 AM, 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. 

I spent the day flying the East Coast of Australia north of Brisbane and it hasn't stopped raining the whole time.  It was quite amazing to be honest, just flying under the cloud level with the rain varying in strength along the way.  On occasions breaking through the clouds and the rain stops to then enter the clouds again and the heavy, heavy rain starts again.

 

Quite impressed TBH

I had sleet (or whatever you call rain/snow mix) in Toronto earlier this afternoon (local time). Might have to full screen it, the white dots are pretty small.

Edited December 31, 20205 yr by Tuskin38

20 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

I had sleet (or whatever you call rain/snow mix) in Toronto earlier this afternoon (local time). Might have to full screen it, the white dots are pretty small.

Was this weather actually going on real time?

im just curious on the lag between real weather and depicted weather in the sim.

Flying over Crater Lake the other day and there was a snow line at about 6,000'. Flew into KSAN today and no snow of coarse but there were scattered low clouds and half the airport was foggy and half clear. Pretty cool how MSFS has fronts and also patches of different weather.

Real Weather seems to be working alright !

Wowee.. just did a full IFR flight from Friday Harbor to Renton Municipal.

Let me tell you something.. i usually fly the tube stuff and trusting the instruments in those to minimums seems like a less stressful experience. I took the Bonanza Turbo for this trip and i was never more scared that i wouldn't be able to put the plane down. At absolute minimums i was  just able to make out the end of the runway lights in the torrential rain at night. I kept wondering if i could trust the RNAV as it kept pointing the aircraft down with no ground  or lights in sight!

The pic was taken just after departure. Wx just got progressively worse from there.

For the real life pilots out there that have to fly in those conditions.. yeah hats off to you.  I just got a small taste and it was almost sensory overload to the point  i almost started to second guess yourself and the instruments.

Edited December 31, 20205 yr by Maxis

4 hours ago, badger2000 said:

I spent the day flying the East Coast of Australia north of Brisbane and it hasn't stopped raining the whole time.  It was quite amazing to be honest, just flying under the cloud level with the rain varying in strength along the way.  On occasions breaking through the clouds and the rain stops to then enter the clouds again and the heavy, heavy rain starts again.

 

Quite impressed TBH

Awesome!

After I had made the post, I did experience rain too actually. It's nicely modeled with the drops on the windshield and everything.

1 hour ago, Maxis said:

Real Weather seems to be working alright !

Wowee.. just did a full IFR flight from Friday Harbor to Renton Municipal.

Let me tell you something.. i usually fly the tube stuff and trusting the instruments in those to minimums seems like a less stressful experience. I took the Bonanza Turbo for this trip and i was never more scared that i wouldn't be able to put the plane down. At absolute minimums i was  just able to make out the end of the runway lights in the torrential rain at night. I kept wondering if i could trust the RNAV as it kept pointing the aircraft down with no ground  or lights in sight!

The pic was taken just after departure. Wx just got progressively worse from there.

For the real life pilots out there that have to fly in those conditions.. yeah hats off to you.  I just got a small taste and it was almost sensory overload to the point  i almost started to second guess yourself and the instruments.

It is actually easier in many respects to minimums in small GA because you sit lower. Thus making it easier to make out the runway environment. You are also generally going a bit slower allowing for more time as well.

22 minutes ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

It is actually easier in many respects to minimums in small GA because you sit lower. Thus making it easier to make out the runway environment. You are also generally going a bit slower allowing for more time as well.

You also get thrown around more in GA aircraft and its alot more twitchy to handle regardless of the fact that your going slower. I may also add that you wont be able to look out the window and get a sense of speed or any orientation for that matter because the approach and finals condition at Renton was whiteout with rain and turbulence.   Swings and roundabouts.. Everyone got their comfort zone. GA isn't mine that's fine.

I just posted in this thread primarily to point out that if you look for it you will find a decent depiction of the weather and that when the conditions are right this sim will knock you back with the immersion factor.

 

Cheers

Edited December 31, 20205 yr by Maxis

Chicago weather is still jacked up. Absolutely no snow on the ground in the sim and right now it’s completely clear in the sim but it hasn’t been clear since yesterday morning.

it’s as if there’s a huge lag in the weather getting injected into the sim.

I still have no idea how meteoblue isn’t giving msfs snow fall detail especially when it happened 2 days ago.