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Remember to use <tt>''Environment > Weather > Detailed weather > Advanced settings > Temperature offset''</tt> with scenarios to simulate higher or lower temperatures. This is the only way to simulate winter, for example. Rainy scenarios produce snow-fall as as the temperature changes. | Remember to use <tt>''Environment > Weather > Detailed weather > Advanced settings > Temperature offset''</tt> with scenarios to simulate higher or lower temperatures. This is the only way to simulate winter, for example. Rainy scenarios produce snow-fall as as the temperature changes. | ||
Use ''[[Weather#Snow%20and%20rain%20on%20ground|Environment > Environment settings]]'' for rain on the ground, or adjusting snow deposits - these are not set from the weather dialog as they depend on ''history'' of weather, not weather at any instant. | |||
The advanced weather simulation is very sophisticated. There are many properties of atmosphere state that are currently not exposed by the GUI, or are not practical to expose. These properties are randomised each time AW is initialised. Live METAR reports are a vague, limited, rounded off, variable quality, hint at atmospheric state very close to an airfield given at varying intervals intended for airfield operation. Therefore, when using METARs to drive weather there are a lot of properties that unavoidably need to by randomly guessed by Advanced Weather. Pressing "Apply" in the Weather dialog for a given weather condition or a METAR will create a new random set of properties. | The advanced weather simulation is very sophisticated. There are many properties of atmosphere state that are currently not exposed by the GUI, or are not practical to expose. These properties are randomised each time AW is initialised. Live METAR reports are a vague, limited, rounded off, variable quality, hint at atmospheric state very close to an airfield given at varying intervals intended for airfield operation. Therefore, when using METARs to drive weather there are a lot of properties that unavoidably need to by randomly guessed by Advanced Weather. Pressing "Apply" in the Weather dialog for a given weather condition or a METAR will create a new random set of properties. | ||