Live weather?

[mattloveday1987 4]

Hi All

Juat beginning the mass install of MSFS as I type… what is everyone’s view on the live weather? Is it accurate or are there any add ons that are better the default setup?

Thanks

Matt

[Virtpilot 151]

It is good, no need for any add ons IMO. It used to be even better in the beginning but it is gradually getting back there. Tomorrow it will hopefully be even better after the SU12....

[regis9 4,014]

I use default/live.  Not perfect but generally working quite well for me.

[GCBraun 2,392]

MSFS offers the best weather generation out of the box on any sim that I've used or use.

[Sky_Pilot071 580]

The weather and clouds are awesome and improving.  You won't want to look back.

sp

[MarcG 2,978]

Live weather is all I use, pretty much spot on most of the time but they faffed around with METAR integration in SU7 and it went backwards. Slowly getting back to what it was like pre that update, I'm currently over Madagascar and the clouds/wind match that of windy.com very well.

[lwt1971 7,413]

I'm not in the SU12 beta, and we'll all know soon enough, but various folks on the official forums are reporting live weather improvements in SU12. If a great thing is being made even better, then can't go wrong.. that's been the track record so far by MS/Asobo ever since METAR integration, so hopefully we'll keep seeing it progressively improve even more thru future SUs.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/excellent-live-weather-in-su12/581538
 

Edited March 20, 2023 by lwt1971

[David Mills 4,763]

It's so convenient and economical to have everything bundled together in the single package that is MSFS: Live weather which is beautifully depicted; gorgeous, highly-detailed, worldwide ground scenery, and high-quality aircraft. No need to purchase everything separately anymore. I do own add-ons, but they are luxuries rather than necessities now.

[BrammyH 447]

Question on live weather: It is separate from SIM time, right? So if it's 3am real time, but I fast forward in the sim to 8pm, is the weather is still based on conditions at 3pm (real time)?

[David Mills 4,763]

30 minutes ago, BrammyH said:

Question on live weather: It is separate from SIM time, right? So if it's 3am real time, but I fast forward in the sim to 8pm, is the weather is still based on conditions at 3pm (real time)?

Yes. So you can theoretically fly the current daytime weather in the darkness of night or the current nighttime weather in the light of midday.

Edited March 20, 2023 by David Mills

[abennett 172]

Interesting people think that the live weather is looking better. For me, the clouds are nice some of the time but the vast majority of the time they are volcanic/cauliflower looking, and the colour is too yellow. 
 

I’m on SU12 beta, and personally haven’t noticed any difference to live weather from SU11.

[Sky_Pilot071 580]

44 minutes ago, abennett said:

Interesting people think that the live weather is looking better. For me, the clouds are nice some of the time but the vast majority of the time they are volcanic/cauliflower looking, and the colour is too yellow. 
 

I’m on SU12 beta, and personally haven’t noticed any difference to live weather from SU11.

Never noticed those type of clouds.  I guess those would be most likely in low pressure weather systems.  Another reason why MSFS weather is not some across the board implementation.

sp

[abennett 172]

6 minutes ago, Sky_Pilot071 said:

Never noticed those type of clouds.  I guess those would be most likely in low pressure weather systems.  Another reason why MSFS weather is not some across the board implementation.

I’ve often seen clouds like this. Pretty nasty. Not my image btw. I’m away from home but have seen ones like this quite often.

[Stearmandriver 2,296]

10 hours ago, MarcG said:

Live weather is all I use, pretty much spot on most of the time but they faffed around with METAR integration in SU7 and it went backwards. Slowly getting back to what it was like pre that update, I'm currently over Madagascar and the clouds/wind match that of windy.com very well.

This is an interesting take.  Pre SU7, weather at airports often bore no resemblance at all to actual conditions, as the 12 hour model runs would often blow the timing of events like frontal passage by whole hours. This completely negated the use of any real-world flight planning tools, and badly broke the experience of networked flying as well (ie Vatsim.). 

The integration of METAR into the depiction of airport weather is probably the single greatest advancement this sim has made in weather accuracy.  It can be debated whether the clouds are more or less "pretty" now (I think they look good), but conditions are certainly more accurate than they ever were before.

Edited March 20, 2023 by Stearmandriver

[KERNEL32 500]

2 hours ago, abennett said:

Interesting people think that the live weather is looking better. For me, the clouds are nice some of the time but the vast majority of the time they are volcanic/cauliflower looking, and the colour is too yellow. 
 

I’m on SU12 beta, and personally haven’t noticed any difference to live weather from SU11.

I guess its all in how we view it, but like you, I agree. Also using the SU12 beta and although things are improving some there is still a lot of work to go.

The clouds are where they should be, but something is way off with the cloud heights, layer(s) (normally not enough), missing true overcast, and most especially the cloud types (we have cumulus puffs everywhere or a thin strange looking wispy flatter type of transparent puff) and most every one of them are very transparent can see through them.. 

Edited March 21, 2023 by KERNEL32