No more live weather thunderstorms?

[KERNEL32 510]

3 minutes ago, gore54 said:

How are they gonna simulate tornados in 2024 version if they cant get proper clouds and thunderstorms depicted correctly in the sim?

Just asking

Don

Just a guess here at this point as we do not know any details but I am willing to guess that the tornado thing is a canned effect or "preset" if you will. 

I did not see anything in the trailer that shows any improvement to the weather but again way too short to really tell for sure - and one thing to add is the visibility in that "tornado scene" was insanely unrealistic IMO. Normally there is debris, low visibility and rain/wind making things a lot less "clean" than what that screenshot shows.

[Alvega 2,126]

14 minutes ago, KERNEL32 said:

Just a guess here at this point as we do not know any details but I am willing to guess that the tornado thing is a canned effect or "preset" if you will. 

Looks like you missed the Flightsim Expo presentation, they already said it's not.

[MarcG 3,031]

I've very interested and immensely intrigued how they're going to bring Tornadoes into Live Weather, considering they are still incredibly hard to predict at the best of times. Whether they go for a random algorithm, or have "zones" of areas where they'll appear, who knows.

One thing I don't want to see is a category F5 tornado in the UK (!), even though we have more tornados per land mass than the USA ours are barely F1s at the best of times. Our supercells rarely get to the size of Tornado Alley ones either, it will be interesting to see but if it's comically unreal it will be a disappointment.

[MarcG 3,031]

Excuse my scales getting mixed up with hurricanes 🤦‍♂️

[KERNEL32 510]

19 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Looks like you missed the Flightsim Expo presentation, they already said it's not.

I watched that but can you point me to where they said that the tornado for example is *not* a canned or scripted preset? Like I said, it's still too early to tell for sure; missions or events like the tornado or a rescue that are all "live" and unscripted would be really neat!

https://youtu.be/C0KkqNSw54U?t=16030

 

 

[Alvega 2,126]

19 minutes ago, KERNEL32 said:

I watched that but can you point me to where they said that the tornado for example is *not* a canned or scripted preset? Like I said, it's still too early to tell for sure; missions or events like the tornado or a rescue that are all "live" and unscripted would be really neat!

https://youtu.be/C0KkqNSw54U?t=16030

 

 

Sorry, it was not in the Flightsim Expo video, it's in this one:

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZszOBVoREVg?feature=share&t=8562

 

[cmpbellsjc 2,963]

@KERNEL32 The time stamped video from the linked post shows where he says it’s not canned.

[KERNEL32 510]

1 minute ago, Alvega said:

Sorry, it was not in the Flightsim Expo video, it's in this one:

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZszOBVoREVg?feature=share&t=8562

 

ohhh very cool! I had not seen that, thanks for the link and very encouraging!!! 😁

[Alvega 2,126]

39 minutes ago, MarcG said:

I've very interested and immensely intrigued how they're going to bring Tornadoes into Live Weather, considering they are still incredibly hard to predict at the best of times. Whether they go for a random algorithm, or have "zones" of areas where they'll appear, who knows.

I don't know how they are going to do it, but it's possible they will use the Meteoblue warnings, which also show active tornados if I'm not mistaken:

https://www.meteoblue.com/weather/maps#map=warningsAndRisk~officialWarnings~auto~sfc~none&coords=2.98/46/-78.14

[Tuskin38 6,635]

All these thunderstorms going on right now, and I can't see a single bolt of lightning in MSFS. Anyone having luck?

https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;z=5;y=36.5449;x=-83.7378;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;

Edited July 5, 2023 by Tuskin38

[tgsweat 144]

I've actually seen some lately after not seeing any for a long time 

[jwhak 95]

Had luck... Was seeing it in Missouri a few hours ago and connected to the East server. Glad it's back.

                                                     Happy Landings

 

[Alvega 2,126]

8 minutes ago, jwhak said:

Had luck... Was seeing it in Missouri a few hours ago and connected to the East server. Glad it's back.

                                                     Happy Landings

 

The server doesn't matter. The servers you see you are connected to are the multiplayer servers, the weather servers are different. It can say you are offline (if you have multiplayer disabled) and you still get live weather.

[jwhak 95]

Rgr on the last. Thanks for the intel.

                        Happy Landings

 

[CapnCrunch 90]

On 5/24/2023 at 3:43 AM, Ray Proudfoot said:

Is there any way to search for them in MSFS

Not that I know of, at least not in the same way you could with Active Sky (boy do I miss that software). Not sure if the world map filters would be accurate. I've had some success using the Meteo Blue site as a reference. Makes sense I guess if they're pulling data from there for Live sim weather.