What sources do you use to get weather for your flight planning? I am using Windy that I like rather well - with the right filters on you can get cloud base as a layer for example that I like for VFR planning, and you get a nice visual METAR/NOTAM integrated as well as seen below.

https://www.windy.com/EGUW?cbase,52.311,-1.029,7

 

In US we use primarily this:

https://aviationweather.gov

or any other official source of aviation weather

Northavimet joint venture between the nordics/baltics  with very detailed VFR forecasts, graphical SIGMETS and much more.

Windy (METAR/TAFS, windspeed, tracking of low pressure areas)

SWC  issued by our national CAA (keep track of frontal systems, ice+turb warnings and convergence lines)

These three have never failed to give me a good mental image of the expected weather enroute.

 

 

For preflight I'm using Meteoblue.com, where there's legacy charts with METAR and other useful, aviation related information. Inflight I'm using the Windy app on Ipad, as it is most convenient for a quick overlook. For actual conditions on landing I rely on the datalink feature of the WorkingTitle CJ4 mod, where I have set the METAR source to MSFS (limitation see below).

Notice that currently there's probably a bug with live weather in MSFS that is obviously loading the weathermodel for 0900Z onwards twice, once in the evening before at around 2000Z and again - then correctly - at 0900Z, so the conditions (like cloud coverage, precipitation, visibilty) you see in the sim may be inaccurate between approx. 200Z and 0900Z - at least that's how it is in my timezone. Wind, Temps and QNH will be accurate however, as they are injected seperately - but the interpolation may cause windshear and other adverse effects occasionally during this timeframe. (Info)

Edited May 15, 20215 yr by Tom_L
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For METARs and TAFs I use an app called Aviation Weather.  It will also give you wind components for each runway at an airport.

I also use skyvector both to see METARs but also because the map shows colour coded weather stations (ie green for VFR) so I can get an initial sense of whether a route I have in mind can likely be completed VFR or not.

Edited May 15, 20215 yr by regis9

I use this...

meteoblue.com

I am not sure how, what or when anything is sent the MS servers and then how, what or when anything is sent to you, but the site it well done

In my flying life , (I fly a falcon 2000 for an air charter company) we don't spend a lot of time on each daily mission weather briefing, in my opinion unless it's already known to be a dangerous situation, or potentially mission ending weather or stuff below mins.. As a pilot for 30+ years, and weather fanatic there's not a day where I don't have a pretty good idea as to what the weather is anywhere in the USA so in the back of my mind, I already know what is going on and then I back it up by TAFs , and my added knowledge of the area at hand.... again, not too concerned daily except when it comes to icing, thunderstorms, tornados, snowstorms, .... that's about it...