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Live Weather / Historic Weather always connected to time set

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4 hours ago, Damian Clark said:

Working on it... for the past 7 days we hope to make it at the temporal resolution of 10 minute archives (TBD).

brilliant, but only if it is for all platforms ..... after many requests to do so & yes 24hours is all that's needed.

& you can scrape the next several years you currently archive

for now, cheers

john martin

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  • ActiveSky should do the trick, IMO. It's funny that after all these years of begging for historically accurate weather, someone shows up and demand 100%-live weather back 🙂

  • As I understood the issue, this new feature/way of doing it, is exactly what people were screaming about in FS2020. In essence, you want a way to set the time for the weather and sim separately?

  • If thats the solution, than they completely messed up what people wantet with historical weather I think. You should have the option to select historical weather separately from the time. Like this fl

I know 2020 had custom weather presets but could you save as well as load them? If so this would fix this issue at least short term. You could load the sim at current time then SAVE CURRENT WEATHER as a snapshot and LOCK it. Then change the time and keep using your 'live' weather which would no longer be live but would be a fair compromise at this point. 

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Another thing that should have been an option. I want to change things independently, it's SO EASY to have it as an option. Just a simple checkbox "link weather to time of day" or something similar... If i want it linked, i check the box, if i don't want it linked, i uncheck the box. There, no need to be a rocket scientist.

Are these even real programmers? They set things in stone from polls in forums instead of improving their software based on global user input.

Now, because in some poll in some forum, not even seen by everyone who has a say in the matter, EVERYONE has to deal with whichever option got the most votes, instead of thinking out of the box and actually implemeting something that would please everyone. I am actually embarassed by software development nowadays, they just don't care. Man, i am WAY underpaid.

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They'll probably break it again and remove the historic weather function completely trying to "fix" this...

11 hours ago, vadriver said:

One hopes the archives are every 10-15mins over the previous 24 hours & hence record weather changes as often as they are recorded by most jurisdictions, particularly SPECI's .... for example, as I write https://aviationweather.gov/data/metar/?id=KSFO&hours=24


Re: the data resolution every 10-15 mins, I suppose if doing historical weather the traditional way such resolutions would be in play.. but given that in this case with 2024 the whole past 24 hours of the "world state" including their entire weather (Meteoblue global + METAR blending) is preserved, the resolution of the weather is as fine as it was when it was served up  live I'd assume? 
 

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The link in the official MSFS forums above is broken.

Here is the link to the topic for anyone that wants to vote to implement the decoupling of time and live weather in the sim.

Flying exclusively online this makes MSFS2024 not usable mostly for me.

Voting Link in MSFS Forums:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/live-weather-is-not-separate-from-date-that-is-selected/667068

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22 minutes ago, earthdog said:

The link in the official MSFS forums above is broken.

Here is the link to the topic for anyone that wants to vote to implement the decoupling of time and live weather in the sim.

Flying exclusively online this makes MSFS2024 not usable mostly for me.

Voting Link in MSFS Forums:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/live-weather-is-not-separate-from-date-that-is-selected/667068

Unfortunately, voting is akin to wishing for the next billion dollar lottery ticket - at least you can say that you played the game.  Another dreadful design decision from Asobo needing to be corrected by a 3rd party.  Thank you Active Sky.

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On 11/21/2024 at 2:08 PM, gassa said:

May I ask, do you plan flights with simbrief? If yes, how do you handle that most probably simbrief will give you wrong active runways and wrong winds aloft? As far as I am informed, simbrief does always use actual live weather? 

I use BATC so I rely on it to give me correct runways

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apparently the devs finally understood what people wanted (it wasn't this) so they are fixing it in next update. 

it works just fine in the beta. Live tab for historic weather, custom tab to keep current weather while changing time.

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The weather does not match the daytime though then, which was the BIG reason why everbody wanted 24h historical weather. 

1 hour ago, fsiscool said:

The weather does not match the daytime though then

You can still do that.

On 2/9/2025 at 12:35 PM, fsiscool said:

The weather does not match the daytime though then, which was the BIG reason why everbody wanted 24h historical weather. 

it absolutely should

When this topic first came out I believed every word of it.

Changing sim time also does change live weather. At least within the 24 hour previous time span.

 

Only it is not true. When on the ground simply draw the time slider to any time you like, then select custom weather and pick "Live Weather". Done.

Now you have the current live weather but a different time of the day.

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15 hours ago, dresoccer4 said:

it absolutely should

Agreed, butsince 2024 came out simmers apparently want the opposite. See OP's post.

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