Where's the lightning?

[EmaRacing 302]

I noticed that for a few months I didn't see any lightning in what should be thunderstorms, did they disable it again after it was lightning everywhere?

[monica6211 174]

I flew in a thunderstorm today and got lightning.

[EmaRacing 302]

On 3/11/2021 at 2:21 AM, monica6211 said:

I flew in a thunderstorm today and got lightning.

and thunder?

[ThomseN_inc 1,128]

I haven't seen lightning for month in RL but that doesn't mean it's not there. ;)

[Car147 2,278]

I saw lighning in bound to KMIA yesterday, first time for months.

[marsman2020 1,310]

They added lightning to the sim but it was happening everywhere (even in clear skies).

Instead of fixing whatever the problem was, they just turned it way way down for the entire world.

[eslader 1,783]

Had a good deal of lightning and thunder flying in Peru earlier today. 

 

[badger2000 168]

Good point.  I hadn't realised until you mentioned it.  Haven't seen lightening for a while.  To be honest though, it's much better than thunder and lightening whenever there was as much as one little fluffy cloud in the sky that we had before. 

[TheJAG 57]

40 minutes ago, marsman2020 said:

Instead of fixing whatever the problem was, they just turned it way way down for the entire world.

No, that would be a very simplistic shortcut for Asobo. They did in fact fix it, I had thunderstorms and lightning the other day coming in to Bergen. No more clear skies thunder here either.

[Biology 1,347]

46 minutes ago, marsman2020 said:

They added lightning to the sim but it was happening everywhere (even in clear skies).

Instead of fixing whatever the problem was, they just turned it way way down for the entire world.

Sorry but this is misinformation. I am still getting thunderstorms and lightning as usual.

[Farlis 2,287]

Indeed. The only thing that turned lightning down was Winter.

Not that many thunderstorms during this time of the year in the northern hemisphere. 😉

[NightOfDreams 370]

53 minutes ago, badger2000 said:

Good point.  I hadn't realised until you mentioned it.  Haven't seen lightening for a while.  To be honest though, it's much better than thunder and lightening whenever there was as much as one little fluffy cloud in the sky that we had before. 

I forgot all about that problem, having constant flashes over clear skies made me almost quit the sim for a while.

[monica6211 174]

I was getting lightning, thunder, and scattered showers during my flight in southwestern Ohio. And in real life, that area was indeed experiencing thunderstorms.

[Rockcliffe 5]

43 minutes ago, monica6211 said:

I was getting lightning, thunder, and scattered showers during my flight in southwestern Ohio. And in real life, that area was indeed experiencing thunderstorms.

I got hammered yesterday at Wright-Patterson AFB too. I thought it was some Live weather anomaly in MSFS so it’s interesting to hear there were RW thunderstorms in Ohio

[Dominique_K 10,138]

8 hours ago, marsman2020 said:

They added lightning to the sim but it was happening everywhere (even in clear skies).

Instead of fixing whatever the problem was, they just turned it way way down for the entire world.

Not true. There are thunder sounds and lightnings.