Rain and Snow

[3saul]

Is there a way to have the rain be heavy during a storm and lighter during small showers? On my system there isn't any discernible difference between a thunderstorm and a shower.

Also, with you new rain, it feels as though the rain is following the aircraft because it doesn't seem to matter if I'm sitting still and the airport are going 300 kn, the rain doesn't change angle.

Also, when I go to an airport with snow fall reported I don't see any in the sim - am I missing something.

 

[sundog]

I think your precipitation settings aren't what you want them to be.

If you are using Real Weather Connector and have "sync to RWC" checked, then the rain or snow intensity indicated in the METAR data will be honored. If light or heavy precipitation is indicated, the amount of particles will change.

If you set it to "streaks," their angle will change with the motion of the camera like you want.

With Real Weather Connector properly set up, rain or snow will be honored from the nearest METAR report. If you're not using RWC, the decision of rain vs. snow is based on the ambient temperature, which you can adjust in the weather settings (although there seems to be a bug in XP11 where you can't change that successfully in the UI)