REX real weather changes

[Axelb9]

May I ask someone in the know about what improvements have been done in the REX weather engine as compared to the standard X-Plane one?

My main gripe with XP real weather is how it translates online METAR information to the actual weather depicted in the sim. X-Plane has 3 cloud layers and each of the 3 must be 3000 feet thick. The 2nd cloud layer is 6000 feet above the first and there is a similar gap between the 2nd and the 3rd layer. The METAR conversion never includes any cirrus and startus clouds. If the metar has two layers that are closer than 6000 feet from each other (which is regularly the case) it just creates the second layer 6000' above the first one creating a far from reality weather depiction. (Example METAR FEW150 OVC400 would be depicted as a cumulus scattered layer at 1500 feet plus a cumulus overcast layer at 7500' !!!)

Another major gripe is that if there is no reporting station at an airport it would just use the latest loaded instead of weather from the closes METAR station.

Did the REX weather engine (online metar depiction) better these issues?

Thanks for any informed(!) opinion,

Alex