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(→Quirks & caveats: Add a few common overlooked features or misconceptions: temperature offset, winter/snowfall, rain and snow deposits are set in environment settings, difference between scenarios with simulated weather and other scenarios.) |
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* "''Live data''" (live METAR) is not a simulation. No live weather service is - at any location you get weather belonging to one time of day, one day, one season, one long-term weather pattern like drought. Simulate another time of day, and it's wrong. Rare weather is unlikely when you fly. METAR data is also lacking and imperfect. | * "''Live data''" (live METAR) is not a simulation. No live weather service is - at any location you get weather belonging to one time of day, one day, one season, one long-term weather pattern like drought. Simulate another time of day, and it's wrong. Rare weather is unlikely when you fly. METAR data is also lacking and imperfect. | ||
* You can press "''Apply''" to get a new set of values for randomised properties. Atmosphere state is very complex. There are many different possibilities for scenarios that describe airmasses around you. There are way more properties than is presented in the UI, or can be presented without people accidentally making physically impossible combinations. These properties are randomised at each time AW starts. | * You can press "''Apply''" to get a new set of values for randomised properties. Atmosphere state is very complex. There are many different possibilities for scenarios that describe airmasses around you. There are way more properties than is presented in the UI, or can be presented without people accidentally making physically impossible combinations. These properties are randomised at each time AW starts. | ||
* Use ''Advanced settings > Temperature offset'' with scenarios to simulate higher or lower temperatures. This is the only way to simulate winter. Rainy scenarios produce snow-fall as appropriate. | * Use ''Weather > Advanced settings > Temperature offset'' with scenarios to simulate higher or lower temperatures. This is the only way to simulate winter. Rainy scenarios produce snow-fall as appropriate. | ||
* Use ''[[Weather#Snow and rain on ground|Environment settings]]'' for rain on the ground, or adjusting snow deposits - these depend on history of weather, not weather at any instant. | * Use ''[[Weather#Snow and rain on ground|Environment > Environment settings]]'' for rain on the ground, or adjusting snow deposits - these depend on history of weather, not weather at any instant. | ||
=== Autostarting Advanced Weather === | === Autostarting Advanced Weather === | ||