Loving the bad weather in the UK right now!

[V1ROTA7E 788]

This sim continues to amaze me. The fog depiction is absolutely perfect. Ridiculously accurate RVR depictions, volumetric lighting effects, flawless autolanding from the FENIX and PMDG. I'm just blown away, since it has been a struggle to get this sim in a state where this was possible. In comparison, X-Plane 11 used to have great low weather, HOWEVER at night you could see the lights through the fog (bug) like 20 miles out, and they refused to do anything about it. Not so in MSFS. NO weird light glitches, just pure IMC to minimums. I'm so pleased!

[jcomm 6,142]

Shouldn't there be snow covering those airports now?

Flights from most origins in the UK are being canceled due to it...

[MDFlier 2,034]

Beautiful shots. I flew out of KORD in the fog just before dawn this morning and thought the lighting was spectacular as well. 

[V1ROTA7E 788]

5 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Shouldn't there be snow covering those airports now?

Flights from most origins in the UK are being canceled due to it...

Oh wow, I had no idea. I thought the flights were delayed/cancelled due to the low visibility. I've been following some flights on Flight Aware, but they just say they're delayed due to weather. I am in the Beta, so there's the "fix" for the snow on the apron. Up north at EGPH, there was snow everywhere.

[EGLD 490]

For me these conditions are still too orangey, in real life in the UK the last few days, the fog has been bright grey/white

And also yes, as the above poster mentions, it would really be much more realistic if there was some way to depict frozen/snowy ground when there is no snowfall

We had snowfall yesteday, the skies are clear today, but everywhere is white

We almost need a tick box in the weather settings to allow real world weather, but define that there is snow on the ground

[V1ROTA7E 788]

23 minutes ago, EGLD said:

For me these conditions are still too orangey

Interesting. I kinda see what you mean. But what about when the sun starts to rise or set? Depending on the thickness of the layer, it'd make sense for the orangeyness. Here's a shot from during the day.

[Jazz 1,047]

35 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Shouldn't there be snow covering those airports now?

Flights from most origins in the UK are being canceled due to it...

It's a modern British tradition to make a song and dance about 2 millimeters of snow and behave as though it's dangerous and unworkable when the rest of the world manages to keep things running with meters of the stuff on the ground. Here it's used as an excuse to get out of school and work.

Frankly, I have always found it pathetic.

Edited December 12, 2022 by Jazz

[sonny147 604]

agree, I've worked all over northern Europe and they deal with much worse with ease, we go into meltdown, everybody goes on strike or sick  as if we have never seen snow before lol 

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,318]

58 minutes ago, jcomm said:

Shouldn't there be snow covering those airports now?

Flights from most origins in the UK are being canceled due to it...

No snow in the North...

[sonny147 604]

maybe not north north , but south north loads of it ! 😬

[Kaboki 443]

23 minutes ago, Jazz said:

It's a modern British tradition to make a song and dance about 2 millimeters of snow and behave as though it's dangerous and unworkable when the rest of the world manages to keep things running with meters of the stuff on the ground. Here it's used as an excuse to get out of school and work.

Frankly, I have always found it pathetic.

I was puzzled when I saw the news from UK:p. Here in Norway we have no problems even during powerful snow blizzards. The Dash 8 100/200 just tugs along nicely. 

[Zangoose 1,680]

12 minutes ago, Kaboki said:

I was puzzled when I saw the news from UK:p. Here in Norway we have no problems even during powerful snow blizzards. The Dash 8 100/200 just tugs along nicely. 

To be fair, Norway and other countries gets more/heavy snow each year compared to the UK so we don't spend a lot of money on dealing with it as it would be a waste for most of the year. It's just one of those things. 

Edited December 12, 2022 by Zangoose

[F737MAX 5,962]

1 minute ago, Kaboki said:

I was puzzled when I saw the news from UK:p. Here in Norway we have no problems even during powerful snow blizzards. The Dash 8 100/200 just tugs along nicely. 

You live in a country where you get heavy snow most days in winter every year. The UK gets a few days of snow that settles every 5-10 years. Big difference.

Our infrastructure just isn't designed to deal with snow. Plus everyone who's trained on winter ops doesn't get the same level of experience as our northern continental neighbours.

BTW, this is a *lot* of snow for us in the UK.
EGSS, last night:

[F737MAX 5,962]

1 hour ago, V1ROTA7E said:

Ridiculously accurate RVR depictions,

I'm a fan of the RVR in this sim, feels realistic in this sim.
And then you get the breakout from the fog layer when climbing... 🤩

Here's what else London had to deal with weather-wise yesterday:

https://i.imgur.com/dyZ1hy4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/BS4GAHS.jpg

[sonny147 604]

oh is that real thought it was GSX !! lol