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Live weather in MSFS

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Hi all 

I've recently been  flying into NZQN in msfs and I have just have a question about the weather. I can never seem to get a METAR for queenstown and every time I arrive the weather is clear however when I look up the live weather on google, its raining.

How does MSFS get the live weather? Does it use the METAR for weather depiction? 

Regards 

Ash

10 hours ago, ashleyjames said:

Hi all 

I've recently been  flying into NZQN in msfs and I have just have a question about the weather. I can never seem to get a METAR for queenstown and every time I arrive the weather is clear however when I look up the live weather on google, its raining.

How does MSFS get the live weather? Does it use the METAR for weather depiction? 

Regards 

Ash

NZQN often doesn't show a METAR, even w/ 3rd party METAR readers.  If you look here you will notice the METAR displayed is nearly 346km away, and my guess is MSFS just doesn't pick up a METAR that really isn't very useful anyway since it's so far away.

METAR NZQN - Queenstown International Airport (metar-taf.com)

Noel

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