Interesting...

Typical Weather

An Intelligent, location-aware weather engine that adapts to where and when you fly.

Typical Weather is an alternative to live weather, but not a preset pack. It’s a completely new approach to weather, a different kind of engine that calculates and delivers conditions that make sense for the place and season you’re flying in, without complex setup or endless preset lists.

Powered by historical climate data from over 9,000 weather stations and nearly 20 million sample points, Typical Weather generates the kind of conditions pilots would normally expect in that region at that time of year.

Think of it as a digital farmer’s almanac, quietly running in the background, keeping your skies feeling "typical" with zero effort.

Interesting. So this might help if I do a flight set in August, say? Msfs does 24 hour weather caching, or else live weather, or else pick a preset. This will let me have summer flights in winter with appropriate “typical’ weather? I’ll see some reviews. I think this is interesting. 

Yeah, that’s an elegant idea! If (and it’s probably a big if’ it can create dynamic skies with some changing weather, and not simply paint the whole world with the same weather, this might be an excellent way to have a truly ‘anytime, anywhere’ sim. 

Interesting.

Interesting, but I'd still rather have live weather.  Msfs is generally alright-ish.  I would prefer to see actual cloud bases that you can't see through or actual low visibility when the metar warrants.  

I wanted to edit my post and add more thoughts.  Hopefully someone from P42 reads this.  My background with weather is that I've been a certified NOAA observer for most of my air traffic control career.  I've watched the skies for over 15 years (before I switched to watching aircraft datablocks track across the radar scope as I do now hehe).  Weather is still very much a part of my career but on a broader scale.  Having realistic weather in the sim is paramount!  METAR and TAF/GRIB+forecasts are what airlines base everything on.  It's what General Aviation pilots base their go or no-go decision on.

Why doesn't P42 take this opportunity to blend those 20 million historical datapoints with current forecasts and LIVE metar?  They could make a new engine that generates realistic live weather (MSFS default is okay-ish as I've said above but it needs improvement), and then they could use their datapoints to "fill in" the gaps where live weather or forecast data is missing or just way off.  P42 could be just the developer for this venture as they've already done some interesting products like the gokart and fishing app, along with chaseplane etc.  They know their way around the MSFS ecosystem/GUI.

Edited December 15, 2025Dec 15 by ryanbatc

This looks pretty cool... I've never been interested in weather addons for 2020/2024, since the live weather in MSFS has always been "good enough" for me. But there are plenty of times where the live weather is IFR when I want to fly VFR, so I'm stuck using the few presets in the sim... from what it looks like, this would give me some weather variation that is fitting for the area I'm flying in. I'll be interested to see the reviews! (being a //42 product tho, I am guessing this will just work as described)

49 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

Interesting, but I'd still rather have live weather.  Msfs is generally alright-ish.  I would prefer to see actual cloud bases that you can't see through or actual low visibility when the metar warrants.  

Yes, but if you set a flight date of June 25 and it’s Dec 15 right now, live weather doesn’t make sense. Then my only choice is an unchanging preset. 

1 hour ago, ryanbatc said:

I would prefer to see actual cloud bases that you can't see through or actual low visibility when the metar warrants.

Definitely. Hoping and praying for a major weather update next year.

Having said that, have seen a few massive fronts / dense clouds in valleys and basins / thick haze in various places around the globe recently to make me appreciate that when it works, current live weather isn’t bad at all. Gives a sense of dynamism and ‘liveness’ that preset-based just can’t.

Have to give this one a try! Thx HiFlyer!!!

That's something I'd have liked for an offline sim (FS9, FSX, P3D). Apart from that, as an Active Sky user, why would I want this utility?

I wonder if

• the system creates snow on the ground in correct locations for time of year too?
• they say that there is an option to fly the whole route with the same "world wide" weather preset, but also we can fly with the correct / typical weather for the departure and arrival airports. But what about all the points in between? Are all of the stations along the route also "typical" weather?

Hopefully someone picks it up and can answer some of the ?'s in here 

Edited December 16, 2025Dec 16 by KERNEL32

3 hours ago, scotchegg said:

 

Having said that, have seen a few massive fronts / dense clouds in valleys and basins / thick haze in various places around the globe recently to make me appreciate that when it works, current live weather isn’t bad at all. Gives a sense of dynamism and ‘liveness’ that preset-based just can’t.

Yeah it definitly has improved since 2020.  The live weather system on a global scale is pretty good imo.  Mostly what I would like improved might not be possible with the current weather "engine."  I think one of the big downsides of the cloud voxel tech is that it's difficult (IE resource intensive) to make truly opaque clouds.  So often times I'm flying into an airport that has an IFR ceiling (in the USA cloud bases lower than 1000 ft agl), and or visibility less than 3SM.  So if the ceiling is OVC009 (or 900 ft above ground), I should roughly see the airport around 3 miles out assuming a 3 degree glide path.  I think the sim has done a little better with visibility... when the METAR calls for low vis I've noticed the sim is semi low vis.  But what I've never seen is like hardball IMC....  or like precision minimums... where it's OVC002 (an overcast layer 200 ft above the ground) with 1/2 SM vis.  I've seen really low vis while approaching the runway if a heavy rain band happens to appear, or heavy snow....  but not just regular low vis and or low ceilings.  You can always "see through" the cloud bases in MSFS and that annoys me.  (cue the people saying irl you can see through some clouds - of course!)  But I'm speaking of regular nice stratus overcast clouds (or broken layer) which inhibits you from seeing the approach light or runway environment till you pop out of the bottoms.  One of the most rewarding things in the sim is to shoot an approach to minimums (at night in rain or snow hehe) and to see the approach lights just barely in time... and if you're centered it's a cool feeling like I flew that virtual approach beautifully lol!

I could go for this since I like presets.

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Yes, interesting for flying summer flights when its actually winter. Gives flexibility.

But how can i tell SimBrief that i do a summer flight with "typical" weather instead of taking the live winter weather now?

52 minutes ago, Paladin2005 said:

But how can i tell SimBrief that i do a summer flight with "typical" weather instead of taking the live winter weather now?

I principle, Simbrief has an option to upload weather snapshots. I haven't been able to find any information on whether Typical Weather can produce such weather snapshots though.