How‘s the weather generated in MP?

[Glendathu]

I would guess it‘s set to current season ? And snow, rain or fog are generated randomly? 
 

Or is real weather data used?

[Gazz292]

It's real weather, checked every 5 or 10 minutes.

There's still a little too fast a transition from weather changes,  i often see overcast sky then suddenly the clouds half disappear and the moon is shining down brightly as the real weather check updates... but also got to take into account that we could have moved 20+ km along the track between weather updates, 

i'm not sure if the live weather checks different weather servers (usually at airports) or just one for the whole region.

At least now the snow takes a while to accumulate and does not simply all appear or disappear when the weather updates says it's started or  stopped snowing sometime between the last update,

Though this year seems to be lacking snow in Poland.. but if it's anything like Germany used to be when i lived there in the 1980's, the snow will be most in mid January through February.

So for now we get mostly rain and freezing cold clear nights... temperature is hard to convey in a simulator with no temperature gauge in the cab or complaining passengers like we had in Omsi... with the  'shit ... it's like a fridge in this bus'  😁

 

Maybe we could get passengers coming upto the cab at a stop / banging on the cab door of EMU's shouting 'ffs turn the heating on'  when we forget to flip the train heating switch after taking a train over... as it's always off when you take over a train.

[Glendathu]

Hey, that's great ! Only MS Flight Simulator👨‍✈️ has this real weather so far. And Simrail 👍 The developers should mention that in the description on Steam. All other Train Simulators have random weather changes but not REAL weather.

I had one day with snow in Multiplayer and I really enjoyed that ! It looked so beautiful.

And the idea with the complaining passengers is superb ! 😆

Thank for your explanation !

[zbynak]

Real weather in multiplayer is based on 10x10km grid, updated every 10 minutes, I don't know what its source is.

Switching between seasons has to be done manually (by admins), so the type of precipitation (snow/rain) does not always match up with reality.

Edited December 30, 2023 by zbynak

[Gazz292]

31 minutes ago, Glendathu said:

Hey, that's great ! Only MS Flight Simulator👨‍✈️ has this real weather so far. And Simrail

well... Omsi (The bus simulator) implemented real weather back in 2011 or so,  you had to turn it on yourself and select the relevant airport near the map you were driving on to get the weather data from, 

As i loved driving in Berlin, i always used to select the one for Tegal airport.. ICAO code : EDDT.   but that airport closed a few years ago 😞 

[Glendathu]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb Gazz292:

As i loved driving in Berlin, i always used to select the one for Tegal airport.. ICAO code : EDDT.   but that airport closed a few years ago 😞 

Now they have closed Tegel, we have a now one ! Called "The Neverending Story" EDDB.      😁