Weekly Report #4: How is accurate Weather Engine?

Hi everyone,
This Weekly Report will be untraditional. Today we will talk about Weatherman - our own built-in weather engine of xAmbience Pro.

What is Weatherman?
Weatherman - this is our own weather engine, which are delivered in xAmbience Pro. You need just turn on “Live Weather” and the work will get started.
You will get more about work side - when we will be done on it.

Why Weatherman better than other weather engines?
There are several reasons for this:

• Weather Engine uses data from various sources: NOAA, Satellites and local private weather stations around the world.
  Verifies them with high accuracy and, based on this, renders the weather bases on interpolation of data.

• Weather Engine directly controls the "levers" of the render. Changes or increases the density of clouds depending on which clouds are above you.
  Changes the colours of the sky, changes other effects. Other weather engines don't do this.

• Soft weather changes, the weather change is now smooth. No more jerks, clear wind changes, etc. Everything is soft like in real life.

• Custom turbulence. No more chaotic rotations of the plane. Only soft air currents that will sometimes wiggle your plane.

• Available custom offline weather themes. For those who want to experience everything.

• Weather configurator is available with the ability to change and add up to 32 layers of clouds and wind, etc.

How accurate is Weatherman?

We use data from more than 30 sources and interpolate them.
And based on this, we draw the most accurate weather conditions.
Data on winds, precipitation, etc. is accumulated on our server and interpolated before being sent to the simulator.

Available METAR:

KLGA 271551Z 16007KT 10SM BKN120 13/M09 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP182 T01331089

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NOT FINAL VISUALS.

Final.

As you can see, the rendering is very accurate to METAR and in some scenes looks pretty accurate to real life. Of course this is not final looking. Before release will be a lot of changed and final visuals you will can see only before release. There are only a few weeks left until the release of xA Pro, maybe one or maybe two. In any case, this week will be interesting. The last tests are already beginning and very soon the final update on the development progress. It will be a little longer and will come out undated either this week or next.

Kind Regards,
HST Simulations Development Team