January 11, 20224 yr Is the snow cover working? On Etna Vulcano (Sicily, Italy) not at all!!! Never worked, even with 1m of snow. even though meteoblue is showing the snow on the soil. Here the state: This morning:
January 11, 20224 yr It's working where I live but we have no mountains haha. It's almost all flat land. | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
January 11, 20224 yr Depends on your location. I've posted this is two other threads but is a good response here as well. This is I believe from this past Saturday, about 20 NM north of Lafayette, Indiana, USA. That is not an ocean out ahead. It is the end of the MSFS rendered snow coverage. Pretty abrupt. The terrain on the far side of the snow was springtime green. I had left Madison, Wisconsin, and there it was pretty realistic. Actual real world condition at my destination of Bloomington, Indiana, another 50 nm south, was snow covered. In MSFS it was instead as I said, like springtime. Edited January 11, 20224 yr by fppilot Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
January 11, 20224 yr Snow cover worked beautifully this past week here in West Virginia, the "Mountain State." Processor: Intel i9-13900KF 5.8GHz 24-Core, Graphics Processor: Nvidia RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6, System Memory: 64GB High Performance DDR5 SDRAM 5600MHz, Operating System: Windows 11 Home Edition, Motherboard: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX, LGA 1700, CPU Cooling: Corsair H100i Elite 240mm Liquid Cooling, RGB and LCD Display, Chassis Fans: Corsair Low Decibel, Addressable RGB Fans, Power Supply: Corsair HX1000i Fully Modular Ultra-Low-Noise Platinum ATX 1000 Watt, Primary Storage: 2TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, Secondary Storage: 1TB Samsung Gen 4 NVMe SSD, VR Headset: Meta Quest 2, Primary Display: SONY 4K Bravia 75-inch, 2nd Display: SONY 4K Bravia 43-inch, 3rd Display: Vizio 28-inch, 1920x1080. Controller: Xbox Controller attached to PC via USB.
January 11, 20224 yr 46 minutes ago, fppilot said: Depends on your location. I've posted this is two other threads but is a good response here as well. This is I believe from this past Saturday, about 20 NM north of Lafayette, Indiana, USA. That is not an ocean out ahead. It is the end of the MSFS rendered snow coverage. Pretty abrupt. The terrain on the far side of the snow was springtime green. I had left Madison, Wisconsin, and there it was pretty realistic. Actual real world condition at my destination of Bloomington, Indiana, another 50 nm south, was snow covered. In MSFS it was instead as I said, like springtime. Check this website to show you where real world snow coverage is: Weather Maps | Live Satellite & Weather Radar - meteoblue Asobo did well here to only have snow where it is present in the real world. The only time it's not working is when the weather system is down like everyday around 6pm - 7:15pm. FS2020 Alienware Aurora R11 10th Gen Intel Core i7 10700F - Windows 11 Home 32GB Ram NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super OC 16GB - Pimax Crystal Light VR
January 11, 20224 yr 1 hour ago, Dillon said: Check this website to show you where real world snow coverage is: Weather Maps | Live Satellite & Weather Radar - meteoblue Asobo did well here to only have snow where it is present in the real world. The only time it's not working is when the weather system is down like everyday around 6pm - 7:15pm. Again let me state that KBMG looked like springtime in MSFS 30 minutes after my screenshot and the real KBMG and the surrounding area and southward almost to the Indiana-Kentucky border. I was flying in late morning, Indiana time (EST). I am not complaining or ranting. Just reporting. Accurate and documented. I should also restate for the record that my recent aviation weather experience with MSFS default has been very good. A vast improvement over the past 17 months. Finally! Edited January 11, 20224 yr by fppilot Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
January 12, 20224 yr Author 10 hours ago, Dillon said: Check this website to show you where real world snow coverage is: Weather Maps | Live Satellite & Weather Radar - meteoblue Asobo did well here to only have snow where it is present in the real world. The only time it's not working is when the weather system is down like everyday around 6pm - 7:15pm. Despite the map from asobo in Sicily (Italy), it is not working. At all. Meteoblue is correct. MSFS not. Edited January 12, 20224 yr by YouDontKnow
January 12, 20224 yr I guess MSFS only uses the lowest possible resolution of this snow coverage map and on this, there is no snow on Sicilly. To me, snow coverage is one of the major drawbacks especially when flying in Switzerland (my country), as it is 90% of the time just plain wrong (not in winter though), here in Switzerland, it was already fully snow covered above 1000m (or 1500m) in late August, when temperatures were still above 20°C in such areas. Ridiculous. Even more ridiculous than the wrong snow coverage is the fact that MSFS depicts most lakes within a snow coverage region as fully frozen, so as of now, all lakes in the Alps are fully frozen, which is again just plain wrong. Honestly, as they HAVE the source data with the meteoblue snow coverage map (which is pretty accurate), the implementation in MSFS is just badly done. Just another thing on the endless list of features that are integrated in the sim, yes, but on such a lousy level that it would have been better without. End of rant... And yes, I did open a ticket, and yes, there ARE plenty of threads in the official forums but obviously it is no priority at all. I wonder how those Asobo guys can be happy with their French lakes being frozen over in the Alps, they should at least know for those lakes how totally unrealistic this is... Greetings, Chris AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 2x32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RAM, MSI RTX 4090 Ventus 3X, Windows 11 Home, MSFS2024
January 12, 20224 yr It works for me in Sweden, I saw that the snow line went to the height of Gothenburg yesterday and it was realistic. System: I ASRock X670E | AMD 7800X3D | 64Gb DDR5 6000 | RTX 4090 | 2TB NVMe | Seasonic Vertex 1000W I LG Ultra Gear 34 UW I
January 12, 20224 yr There is a snow problem in some parts of the world, sometimes it takes several minutes for the weather conditions to appear in the sim. The differences are very real depending on the server region. Last week I had CAVOK at KDEN while it was snowing, I had to wait more than 5 minutes before the cloud cover appeared. I tested several servers and there was a difference. Guillaume ASUS ROG STRIX X870 ▪︎ AMD RYZEN 9950X OC 5.5 GHz▪︎ ASUS ROG ASTRAL RTX 5090 OC ▪︎ 32GB 6600 Crucial Ballistix ▪︎ Windows 11 Pro (25H2) ▪︎ 4x Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVME SSD (OS Drive et MSFS) ▪︎ Corsair RMX 1000W 80 plus Gold PSU ▪︎ LIAN-LI ODYSSEY X black case
January 12, 20224 yr 11 hours ago, YouDontKnow said: Despite the map from asobo in Sicily (Italy), it is not working. At all. Meteoblue is correct. MSFS not. I've read somewhere a while a go that MSFS also uses a lower limit of somthing like ~0.3m (don't know the exact value). So there must be more than x cm snow before it shows up in MSFS.
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