Snow cover in your location? Working?

[YouDontKnow 93]

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:

[ryanbatc 12,854]

It's working where I live but we have no mountains haha.  It's almost all flat land.

[liamp51 541]

Working well where I'm located too. 

[fppilot 4,371]

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, 2022 by fppilot

[David Mills 4,763]

Snow cover worked beautifully this past week here in West Virginia, the "Mountain State."

[NismoRR 191]

Been flying around the Alps lately and it has been stunning. 

[Dillon 2,197]

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.

[Bobsk8 12,723]

Flew in Alaska last week, snow was everywhere. 

[fppilot 4,371]

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, 2022 by fppilot

[YouDontKnow 93]

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, 2022 by YouDontKnow

[AnkH 2,264]

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...

[Ixoye 1,821]

It works for me in Sweden, I saw that the snow line went to the height of Gothenburg yesterday and it was realistic.

[guibru 474]

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. 

[Stratocruiser1 134]

It is working in Chicagoland this morning. 

 

[bigifooti 154]

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.