hi again, whilst I really love the way your program changes the weather I am wondering how accurate the data source used is. eg We have had some bad weather in the uk recently, but when I tried to replicate this in TSW i couldn't! 2 examples. I set the weather and scenario to Birmingham this morning at about 8am. If it wasn't snowing at that time there would definately have been some ground snow..there was none! Similarly I run West Cornwall Local at both 11pm last night and this morning at 8am. Both showed very high windspeeds but no rain! Has anyone else noticed obvious discrepancies in the weather? It seems a pity if such an excellent program is limited by both DTG's poor weather implementation and if the data source is similarly poor. Either way the weather changes much more naturally and makes the game more enjoyable.
At least in the Penn Station tunnels, the ground snow slider is greater than 0, even though it should be 0. There isn't any snow shown, but the adhesion was ground snow instead of dry.
I have a possible feature that might be worthwhile to others and myself. I like to run multiple trips on the same train, but always reload back into the game to run the return service, rather than changing ends by walking down the platform as this can sometimes cause bugs in the game. I was wondering if it would be possible to "lock" the current random day and year until I close your app down, that way the weather will stay persistent (but still change minute to minute), without having to remember what year was chosen?
You can use the view online to see the bigger weather picture for the area, and see how far it is from reality (in my experience, not very far). I would also double check date and time.. i.e. if you're in historic weather mode and the required time is just one second in the future, it will roll the query a year back (becasue it cannot do future). And tbh, calling the weather source poor kinda rubs me the wrong way. You have at your disposal aggregated weather model forecast data from all the worlds major meteorological offices (NOAA, ECMWF, UK Met Office... etc) + over 80 years of historical weather data for ANY place on the planet earth (9.3 terabytes of data). It is the best you can get atm, except for directly calling someone in that place... And you get it for free, without even a registration... It is anything, but poor... My program is not doing anything fancy, just simple math conversions, these guys are what makes something like my app, with all its modes, possible. Seriously, check some of their blogposts out, it is insane what they do https://openmeteo.substack.com/ It shouldn't be at 0, the snow slider is based on the reported snow for the lat/lon. The app is only changing wetness slider in tunnels, and only if it detects it is in tunnel (either by annotations, or in-game data). Some tunnels (like the penn station) lack the in-game information that they are tunnels. I will see if that can be made into a setting
@simulator fan Did you select Live Weather in the app, or something else? Because if you select Live Weather, then you should also have the weather in TSW that is outside.
The overall thing I love about this app is that I do not have to think at all about setting something for the weather in my run other than live or historic.
That may have been the problem. I used the weather finder and found some snow at Birmingham at 22.00 on 8/1/26. It looked really good. It is also well worth implementing God mode and selecting the wind strength to moderate as it blows the snow around realistically and adds to the immersion.
