REX Simulations has released V1.3 of Weather Force for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
If you are not familiar, Weather Force is a weather engine that injects highly accurate real world weather data into your flight simulator. While MSFS may have incredible depictions of different types of weather, the live weather function leaves much to be desired, as it is not actually real-time data, and can sometimes be completely inaccurate. This concept is demonstrated in the image REX has provided for this update, as while the live cam and REX Weather depiction show snow, MSFS live weather is depicting rain.
The update was announced via a Facebook post, as well as a post to REX’s forum, which provides a long list of updates to the program, as well as installation instructions. Users of Weather Force should get a pop-up inside the application indicating the update is ready to download. They should then uninstall the current version of Weather Force before installing the new file.
According to the post, this new update comes with a long list of additions, improvements and fixes. Some of the notable additions include the ability to search for weather at favorite airports, instant snow coverage at airports where snow is falling, and improved cloud rendering.
Version 1.3 of Weather Force comes to us a little less than four months after the initial release back in September, which you can read about here.
You can purchase REX Simulations’ Weather Force V1.3 from the REX Game Store for $21.95 here.
What’s New:
- FIXED – Favorite airport weather updates.
- FIXED – Aerosol option not saving.
- FIXED – Clouds not clearing after full overcast.
- FIXED – Ability to startup multiple versions of Weather Force.
- FIXED – Improper weather mode reporting after selecting DWP weather injection on initial load.
- FIXED – Snow not rendering with use of DWP.
- FIXED – No snow generating when snow was falling at the airport.
- IMPROVED – Cloud rendering based upon saturation and stability indexes found in the atmospheric column from balloon and model data.
- IMPROVED – Clearing cloud density during weather automation.
- IMPROVED – Pilot2ATC file export weather updates.
- IMPROVED – Surface weather condition rendering at higher elevation airports.
- IMPROVED – Initial load of snow on ground based upon 7-day weather conditions.
- ADDED – Instant updating of temperature, pressure and wind during initial weather injection.
- ADDED – Instant snow coverage if snow is falling at the departure airport.
- ADDED – Function to keep snow coverage on the ground during flight based upon 7-day review of snowfall at the airport and temperature during flight.
- ADDED – Ability to search weather and view weather at favorite airports during weather synthesis.
