Weather download failled: GRIB file not found. GRIB-1970-01-01-00.00-ZULU-srfc.grib METAR file not found metar-1970-01-01-00.00.txt

Yes, the weather server is broken at the moment. Lamminar knows and Laminar will fix it. No time frame though.

Workaround: Manual weather.

Might be a sign to take another serious look at Active Sky.

what a fkin joke. not cheap payware bought by many many thousands of people this shoud be fixed in a couple of hours. all it does it DLs a 100megs, input is a primitive text file based system, not working for 2 days when theres a serious weather phenomenon over europe now. no wonder realistic weather simulation is so far behind actual possibilities in current sims.

Mmm no that has nothing to do with it. It's not LR's fault. The sim downloads realtime wx files from US gov. The distribution servers that XP uses are down and I imagine will likely stay down for the rest of the day because it's the weekend. Historical wx does work. That server is LR's.

Edited yesterday at 12:28 PM1 day by blingthinger

3 hours ago, blingthinger said:

Mmm no that has nothing to do with it. It's not LR's fault. The sim downloads realtime wx files from US gov. The distribution servers that XP uses are down and I imagine will likely stay down for the rest of the day because it's the weekend. Historical wx does work. That server is LR's.

Maybe in the future they can find a solution not based only in NOAA...

Edited yesterday at 04:11 PM1 day by jcomm

Not working in 12.4.0 Prod, either.

I fell back to my 12.3.3 install and it wouldn’t even launch (hung on getting weather message)

Doing some circuits at GSP and it appears weather suddenly came back.

6 hours ago, Chris202 said:

what a fkin joke. not cheap payware bought by many many thousands of people this shoud be fixed in a couple of hours. all it does it DLs a 100megs, input is a primitive text file based system, not working for 2 days when theres a serious weather phenomenon over europe now. no wonder realistic weather simulation is so far behind actual possibilities in current sims.

It depends ENTIRELY on the Root Cause of the error.

This is the first time I personally can remember live weather being fundamentally non-functional.

I’m confident that if it were in Laminar’s immediate ability to repair, they’d have done it by now.

I.e., we’re looking at some upstream 3rd party vendor problem of some sort.

2 hours ago, jcomm said:

Maybe in the future they can find a solution not based only in NOAA...

Everything malfunctions sooner or later.

For $5 a month, XP has been extremely reliable for years upon years. 🤙

Apparently if was th NOA government server issue, all up

The fault was with NOAA, not Laminar. But real weather is working again.