No Real Weather

[pool07]

I have no real weather. I can not apply R/W to the game. Is it something Im not doing besides sliding the R/W button. It wont move.

[Maki Nishikino]

General Options -> Data -> Live Weather -> On

[Witcher]

Does anyone see rain longer than 5 mins in external view and 10 mins in cockpit view?

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Witcher:

Does anyone see rain longer than 5 mins in external view and 10 mins in cockpit view?

Yes.

[Witcher]

Is there a setting to show rain longer than 5-10 mins?

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Witcher:

Is there a setting to show rain longer than 5-10 mins?

Do you mean seeing it on ground for more than that time?

[Witcher]

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

Originally posted by Witcher:

Is there a setting to show rain longer than 5-10 mins?

Do you mean seeing it on ground for more than that time?

Yes, I assummed your "Yes" means you can see rain longer than 5 mins?

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Witcher:

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

Do you mean seeing it on ground for more than that time?

Yes, I assummed your "Yes" means you can see rain longer than 5 mins?

I thought you meant if I can see it raining for more than 5 minutes. As for your question I can check once I land.

[Witcher]

Few days back I landed at Naha ROAH airport in the evening when there was a storm. I could see huge waves below on final approach to Rwy 36R, except the rain stopped shortly after I turned off the runway lol

[Witcher]

Here's my longest rain animation experienced inside aircraft. The sound of rain can be heard outside aircraft but no rain animation is visible.

https://youtu.be/9HZv3R9rXlY

[ZombieHunter]

I've had it rain for hours on the ground. But when travelling you must realize most storm cells are quite small while steady rain tends to be widespread but less intense.

'Farmer rain' or the rain caused by those low hanging nimbus clouds that simply won't go away and create dreary gray days happen with warm fronts. Warm fronts can cause long term drizzle and dreary weather.

Cold fronts cause rapidly moving short term severe storm cells that can drop massive amounts of rain but in a very short time.

Occluded fronts can cause very long term rain, snow and/or long term severe weather setups since the front is stuck and cannot go anywhere.

Regardless if a cold front is 100 miles wide the rain core is going to be around 20 to 25 miles or less. But it is going to be very intense rain with large downdrafts and crazy updrafts. You will cover 25 miles very quickly even in a little GA plane. So you will be in and out of rain and notice rain shafts here and there and everywhere. The weather will be changing rapidly and it is probably not a good day for VFR.

This is why checking the weather is so important. It is not only important what it is where you take off from but between your origin and destination and at your destination.

If you look at the radar history of severe cells that have produced tornadoes, wind damage and flooding you will find most of them rarely cover an entire county in the US.

[Witcher]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

I've had it rain for hours on the ground. But when travelling you must realize most storm cells are quite small while steady rain tends to be widespread but less intense.

'Farmer rain' or the rain caused by those low hanging nimbus clouds that simply won't go away and create dreary gray days happen with warm fronts. Warm fronts can cause long term drizzle and dreary weather.

Cold fronts cause rapidly moving short term severe storm cells that can drop massive amounts of rain but in a very short time.

Occluded fronts can cause very long term rain, snow and/or long term severe weather setups since the front is stuck and cannot go anywhere.

Regardless if a cold front is 100 miles wide the rain core is going to be around 20 to 25 miles or less. But it is going to be very intense rain with large downdrafts and crazy updrafts. You will cover 25 miles very quickly even in a little GA plane. So you will be in and out of rain and notice rain shafts here and there and everywhere. The weather will be changing rapidly and it is probably not a good day for VFR.

This is why checking the weather is so important. It is not only important what it is where you take off from but between your origin and destination and at your destination.

If you look at the radar history of severe cells that have produced tornadoes, wind damage and flooding you will find most of them rarely cover an entire county in the US.

Was the rain animation visible outside your aircraft? Understand rain cells and passing showers but in my video, you can hear the rain and see the animation inside but not outside the aircraft.

[★Macman★]

I am really trying to visualise rain at 150-200kts and reckon I would not see 1 drop but mist. Consider Terminal Velocity of Rain is 20mph. Rain would not be as expected huh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4pFdLJmG7M&ab_channel=NBCNews

[Witcher]

Originally posted by ★Macman★:

I am really trying to visualise rain at 150-200kts and reckon I would not see 1 drop but mist. Consider Terminal Velocity of Rain is 20mph. Rain would not be as expected huh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4pFdLJmG7M&ab_channel=NBCNews

Fair point, how do you then explain when your aircraft is parked at the gate or taxiing?