Hurricane Laura

[Backhand]

Right now there is an amazing number of people on multiplayer flying over the Gulf of Mexico in Hurricane Laura and along the LA/TX coast.

Unlike last week’s hurricane in the Pacific, MSFS doesn’t seem to render a clearly defined eye in its virtual weather. Still interesting, though!

[FlippinFlow]

I've never seen a flight sim model this very well, i assume it's not that common and no one normally flies through a hurricane. I tried it in FSX so it's a thing people do I suppose...

[ZoSoChile]

Originally posted by Backhand:

Unlike last week’s hurricane in the Pacific, MSFS doesn’t seem to render a clearly defined eye in its virtual weather.

I was searching for half an hour to find the eye. No success.

[Moga CMDR]

Its hard for meteorologist to even do this stuff. And we all know the game has some bugs atm.

Weather and live traffic have always been reported to be out of sync with other reports. Hell even their bing maps are not in sync with the in game geometry!

People often have problems with basic live weather right now, so this is only going to be worse.

I get the interest, I tried too. I think we need to wait and see if things improve a bit. But in reality it won't ever match the real thing since hurricanes aren't really modeled anyway.

I kinda just wanted to see a storm though...I didn't get that. And most of the time, i saw no other people in MP. Sad.

[Patches]

I tried again today find the hurricane and it wasn't there. So I went to P3D and turned on Active Sky and went looking for the hurricane, it wasn't there either.

Both had a lot of clouds, just nothing else. Active Sky usually rocks and rolls in a storm.

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[Geobaldi]

I just did a flight into Lake Charles, LA and no hurricane conditions. The live map looks like it's a day old as the circulation is still around the Yucatan Peninsula.

[FubyDoo]

The clouds were there yesterday.. but not much wind.. 3 knots... but it was nice flying thru the cloud layer.. seems the average thoughts.. but hey, realistic no.. but fun.. yes..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswjFGaP1cc

[Harmonica]

Monstrous conditions on the ground though - zero visibility (not technically, can see the lights at about 100..), hard rain and hellacious noises. Wind speeds in game seem to be around 50mph depending on where you are. I couldn't find any higher, even though it probably should be.

I saw some people abortively trying to fly around in it at low altitude...

There's at least 4 miles of absolutely dense cloud above the ground and you can't see anything, all you can hear is the wind swelling. It's terrifying to be honest. Takes five minutes or so to break through and there's a ton of complexity up there with the cloud layers. Very peaceful. You can see the entire shape of it and the storm bands off down the coast too.

https://imgur.com/a/7mEoANi

Then I made the mistake of reseting the drone and flew through five or six miles of cloud in a second and decided I would quit before my PC melted.

[lojo]

I was able to see the clouds a few days ago but not anymore.

The cloud formation in the pre-flight screen seems to match the location given by NOAA.

Right now I just get clear skys and lots of wind noise, depending on the orientation of the plane.

[Harmonica]

Originally posted by lojo:

The cloud formation in the pre-flight screen seems to match the location given by NOAA.

Yeah it seems very accurate with a good update rate too.

Since it's just so vast it's not really something you can see from any single position on the ground.