Doing missions in Australia on the weekend, I happened to luck into an airstrip/missions that had snow due to it being winter over there at this time of year. Most of the missions I've flown in Australia default to Spring/Summer textures, regardless of weather set to Live or not. So I was surprised to see it - I also really enjoyed the snow effects as I flew over soft surfaces in the helo (its the same as the dirt effect, just recolored).

Wanted to know if it was a fluke or not? The Satellite data the maps are based on is constantly updating so it makes sense that some missions in the same area might have loaded a different season, depending on the last map update.

Flying in colder regions like Iceland, its possible to get snowy terrain all year round, but since I only started with MSFS this Spring, I haven't experienced a Fall/Winter season yet in the sim, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing Toronto and the surrounding area in the Fall/Winter.

Is that a thing in the default sim, or does it only happen though the magic of mods? Both images below were from the same session, same region, two different missions.

Of course they do change.

You can even see subtle changes in tree textures from day to day if you change the date when you are at an airport.

Edited Tuesday at 07:44 PM5 days by Christopher Low

17 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

You can even see subtle changes in tree textures from day to day if you change the date when you are at an airport.

I'll give it a try in free flight

In Career Mode however, you can't control the date+time of the mission, so I'm guessing the reason I'm seeing a lot of summer textures even though its winter in Australia is that the mission is defaulting to summer due to the system date?

Its also weirdly always 15C outside in Australia too. I know that's the Career Mode doing that, as I'll get 15C in Canada, Australia, and the UK missions too. I'm guessing thats the 'clear skies' default temp. I have live weather on however...