Live weather down in the US for me, all clear skies...

10 minutes ago, EmaRacing said:

Live weather down in the US for me, all clear skies...

Just looked at weather map much of the US is clear. 

 

1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said:

Their weather data comes from forecasts not observations. So it's never going to be 100% accurate.

That absolutely and 100% has little to do with the issue as when the weather is off it bears no relationship to either live or any relationship to a forecast for the location.  It is just that far off when its off, which for me in the USA is more often than not.

Edited March 3, 20215 yr by fppilot

14 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Just looked at weather map much of the US is clear. 

 

224 @ 3kts and 29.92 baro everywhere is a good indicator of "live weather not working".
If I say "it's not working", it means that I verified that it's not working.

15 hours ago, himmelhorse said:

Tuskin,

Mate I just left there and there is not a cloud in sight.  I then selected clear skies ...  flew ... then selected live weather from the top taskbar and nothing changed.  I thought/hoped that todays hotfix might sort it out but not happening for me.

Any suggestions.

Tony

I don't know, I'm not running any mods or anything that would touch the weather.

Could be the server, try switching to another region in the main menu.

Edited March 3, 20215 yr by Tuskin38

4 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Try switching to a US server?

Okay. I am in the US and have only flown MSFS in the US.  I assume that I in particular have been using US servers.  My experience with MSFS native weather has been predominantly poor.  I fall just short of saying horribly poor.  So two questions specifically to the post I have quoted.  First, how do I determine with certainty where the server I am connected to is, and how would a user change that?  And second, why specifically would the US server be any better?  Most of the posts praising MSFS weather have appeared to come from those in Europe.

Edited March 3, 20215 yr by fppilot

4 minutes ago, fppilot said:

And second, why specifically would the US server be any better?

I'm using the east coast US server and haven't had any major weather issues.

I do get the common issue of having to restart the sim between flights to get it back, but it doesn't happen to me all the time.

You switch it by clicking on your user name at the top right of the main menu and using the drop down.

Edited March 3, 20215 yr by Tuskin38

1 hour ago, EmaRacing said:

224 @ 3kts and 29.92 baro everywhere is a good indicator of "live weather not working".
If I say "it's not working", it means that I verified that it's not working.

I understand your report.  One question.  Are you basing your experience on ATIS/AWOS reports? or perhaps readings instead from the avionics pages.

2 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

I'm using the east coast server and haven't had any major weather issues. I do get the common issue of having to restart the sim between flights to get it back, but it doesn't happen all the time.

OK.  I am based in Maryland and do fly east coast.  More of my MSFS flying has been in the midwest as I mostly fly based on midwest sports teams playing schedules.  I have not had the good experience.

224 @ 3kts and 29.92 baro even on UK now, clear skies even at the first flight. Wonderful.

5 hours ago, fppilot said:

I understand your report.  One question.  Are you basing your experience on ATIS/AWOS reports? or perhaps readings instead from the avionics pages.

I usually fly in FSeconomy, create plan A to B, fly it and land, go to the main menu, create new flight plan from B to C and so on.
When I get to B in the first flight it's cloudy or worse, with a certain pressure, temperature and wind, when I load the new flight from B, 2 minutes later: clear skies, wind 224 @ 3kts and 29.92 baro

That's how I know it's not working, the first times when it happened I even went to double check on meteoblue or other meteo sites, now I don't even need to.

10 hours ago, EmaRacing said:

224 @ 3kts and 29.92 baro even on UK now, clear skies even at the first flight. Wonderful.

Been like that for me since this hot fix. 

I use FS Global in Xplane when it comes to injecting real weather. It's never let me down and it's unique from some of the others because it has shed loads more weather reporting stations for accurate weather depiction. If FS Global ever comes to MSFS then I'm in.

On 3/2/2021 at 8:31 PM, Silicus said:

Try this, it works for me every time, never had live weather not loading in 350 hours of MSFS:

Spawn onto gate/runway with 'Clear Skies' from the main menu.

THEN select live weather. It takes a moment (max 15 seconds) and live weather will load.

 

Same here, since I started doing the above. Still working after every update.

Cheers,

Edited March 4, 20215 yr by ffantasy67

Live weather definitely working here in the UK for me. It was raining yesterday. Overcast and "manky" this morning.

Try (in game) logging out and logging back in again.