Weather forecast tweaking

Tudor C
14 days ago

The weather forecast model is a joke (and it brings me no satisfaction in saying this).
I realized through experience that the forecast shown in the next race tab shows the most “critical” of weather events throughout 24h which may or may not happen during the race. That’s useless for the purpose of a race setup, but whatever.
What’s even more annoying is when you go to the openweather link from the forum to the circuit you’re about to race on, 30 mins before the race, it says rain’s about to start in 15 mins, shows light rain for the next 90 mins, and then you get a dry race. What’s the friggin point of that weather prediction anyway?
Are those openweather links from the pinned post inaccurate? I remember reading different opinions on whether there’s a delay between what’s shown in openweather and what happens in the actual game, I don't remember exactly how big that was (a visible disclaimer somewhere would be very useful and not something we should have to figure out the hard way), but seriously.. either we have something accurate or if not, might as well make it completely random, static (as opposed to dynamic) or disable it altogether…

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Bogdan Fulga
14 days ago

And the OpenWeather radar doesn't even show te weather prediction,if you look on the radar is only what happend before...
I usualy use a radar app because i know the game is using the real weather and if on the radar it shows rain is coming is imposible to not come,like on the openweather site they are updating it with the info that they get from the weather stations,so if will rain it will change there too

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Red Craigie Super Mod
14 days ago

Personally I find the links to be accurate. There might be some which are not, but they aren’t official iGP links, so hard to complain about that if they are. Also there are a few tracks where you need a bit of advanced knowledge on how openweather works to not get led astray, for example in some areas of the world the minute by minute forecast is not available and it will always show “no precipitation” as the future forecast for the next hour, even if the current weather is raining cats and dogs.

I find the delay on the weather to be between 1 and 5 minutes.

Weather forecasts are often inaccurate and change frequently. Which I think is part of what you are experiencing? This isn’t restricted to open weather. This morning my Apple weather app told me 14cm of snow coming overnight. Now it’s none 6 hours later. The kids are quite disappointed.

Static or preprogrammed weather for me feels like it would be a significant step backwards. And I wouldn’t put it past some players would work out all of the possible patterns. Which would give them a huge advantage.

Edit: bogdan in many places a future forecast is available on OpenWeather so I’m not sure what you are looking at? And as OpenWeather is where the games weather information comes from surely that is the place to go for additional information?

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Bogdan Fulga
14 days ago (Last edited by Bogdan Fulga 14 days ago)

Red

Edit: bogdan in many places a future forecast is available on OpenWeather so I’m not sure what you are looking at? And as OpenWeather is where the games weather information comes from surely that is the place to go for additional information?

Yes,there is the information,but I mean th radar,like if I go now to China or,idk,any other place, i can see how will be the weather is collored under the map,but i mean if i want to see on the radar(click on the map to see it) i can't see on the radar in the future,i just have to think what they say is real

As you can see on this image i can see "Precipitation will end within 9 minutes",so yes,i can see the rain will end in 9 miniute

And when I want to see the radar i can see only a photo of what happens now,but i can't see on the radar what will happen in the future,like i can see only this

As you can see on the photo the last hour i can see is 6:50,more exactly 8 minutes ago was it(the app is using my time,that's why it is 6:50),but i can't see what will be in the next 1 hour on the radar,that's what i wanted to say

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Slo Bro
14 days ago

Bogdan

Red

Edit: bogdan in many places a future forecast is available on OpenWeather so I’m not sure what you are looking at? And as OpenWeather is where the games weather information comes from surely that is the place to go for additional information?

Yes,there is the information,but I mean th radar,like if I go now to China or,idk,any other place, i can see how will be the weather is collored under the map,but i mean if i want to see on the radar(click on the map to see it) i can't see on the radar in the future,i just have to think what they say is real

As you can see on this image i can see "Precipitation will end within 9 minutes",so yes,i can see the rain will end in 9 miniute

And when I want to see the radar i can see only a photo of what happens now,but i can't see on the radar what will happen in the future,like i can see only this

As you can see on the photo the last hour i can see is 6:50,more exactly 8 minutes ago was it(the app is using my time,that's why it is 6:50),but i can't see what will be in the next 1 hour on the radar,that's what i wanted to say

That’s exactly how a radar works, you can’t see what’s about to happen cause that would be a forecast 😉 Radar only sees what’s there, it’s not a forecasting device

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Bogdan Fulga
14 days ago

Slo

Bogdan

Red

Edit: bogdan in many places a future forecast is available on OpenWeather so I’m not sure what you are looking at? And as OpenWeather is where the games weather information comes from surely that is the place to go for additional information?

Yes,there is the information,but I mean th radar,like if I go now to China or,idk,any other place, i can see how will be the weather is collored under the map,but i mean if i want to see on the radar(click on the map to see it) i can't see on the radar in the future,i just have to think what they say is real

As you can see on this image i can see "Precipitation will end within 9 minutes",so yes,i can see the rain will end in 9 miniute

And when I want to see the radar i can see only a photo of what happens now,but i can't see on the radar what will happen in the future,like i can see only this

As you can see on the photo the last hour i can see is 6:50,more exactly 8 minutes ago was it(the app is using my time,that's why it is 6:50),but i can't see what will be in the next 1 hour on the radar,that's what i wanted to say

That’s exactly how a radar works, you can’t see what’s about to happen cause that would be a forecast 😉 Radar only sees what’s there, it’s not a forecasting device

They have forecast too

Forecast generated with the help of the data it has,yes true,is something generated,it doesn't have to be real,rain prediction
Like in F1,they can see on the radar a forecast,it doesn't have to be real,just made by a computer with the help of data they have
How do you think they know when the rain is coming in motorsports😉😅

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Red Craigie Super Mod
14 days ago

Got it so you are just looking for a visualisation of the information on the forecast in radar form.

For me, I’ll stick to the OpenWeather data since it is the live information provider, there’s no difference to me between words telling me rain will stop in 9 minutes or a picture 🙂, and there’s the benefit of seeing in open weather that the live weather has changed. If I have the time to refresh the page during a race. That’s rarely the case. If weather is changeable I open the forecast on my second screen and hit refresh on the start finish straight occasionally.

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Slo Bro
14 days ago

Bogdan

Slo

Bogdan

Red

Edit: bogdan in many places a future forecast is available on OpenWeather so I’m not sure what you are looking at? And as OpenWeather is where the games weather information comes from surely that is the place to go for additional information?

Yes,there is the information,but I mean th radar,like if I go now to China or,idk,any other place, i can see how will be the weather is collored under the map,but i mean if i want to see on the radar(click on the map to see it) i can't see on the radar in the future,i just have to think what they say is real

As you can see on this image i can see "Precipitation will end within 9 minutes",so yes,i can see the rain will end in 9 miniute

And when I want to see the radar i can see only a photo of what happens now,but i can't see on the radar what will happen in the future,like i can see only this

As you can see on the photo the last hour i can see is 6:50,more exactly 8 minutes ago was it(the app is using my time,that's why it is 6:50),but i can't see what will be in the next 1 hour on the radar,that's what i wanted to say

That’s exactly how a radar works, you can’t see what’s about to happen cause that would be a forecast 😉 Radar only sees what’s there, it’s not a forecasting device

They have forecast too

Forecast generated with the help of the data it has,yes true,is something generated,it doesn't have to be real,rain prediction
Like in F1,they can see on the radar a forecast,it doesn't have to be real,just made by a computer with the help of data they have
How do you think they know when the rain is coming in motorsports😉😅

No they can’t. A radar only sees what’s there, it doesn’t interpret any data. So if you want a rain radar, that’s exactly what you described earlier.

But as you say, it’s a computer making a forecast based on data and interpretation of incoming data. Radar provides input, computer interprets and provides output (forecast)

So just to be clear: if you can see a forecast it isn’t a radar, it’s a computer generated prediction, not a radar.

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Bogdan Fulga
14 days ago

Red

Got it so you are just looking for a visualisation of the information on the forecast in radar form.

For me, I’ll stick to the OpenWeather data since it is the live information provider, there’s no difference to me between words telling me rain will stop in 9 minutes or a picture 🙂, and there’s the benefit of seeing in open weather that the live weather has changed. If I have the time to refresh the page during a race. That’s rarely the case. If weather is changeable I open the forecast on my second screen and hit refresh on the start finish straight occasionally.

And I have seen something interesting,on the home page the weather updates instantly,but when you join the race the rain will start 1-2 minutes later(or will stop)like there isn't a delay because the game is taking the data from the site slow,and it is in-game changing something that is delaying it?

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