Hifi AS16: What kind of weather data sources is used?

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Hifi AS16: What kind of weather data sources is used?

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Hey guys,

I wonder what kind of weather data sources are used with Hifi's Active Sky 2016.
So far I thought only METARs, winds aloft and SIGMET/AIRMETS are used to create the weather synthesis. But recently I discovered (several times) that there were thunderstorms present in the sim (FSX:SE) more or less exactly where real life detectors measured lightning strikes. There were no METARS or SIGMETs in the area with thunderstorm related messages. And I can't imagine the physical model of AS16 could forecast thunderstorm in a such reliable way (the RL forecast models also can't do it :wink: ).

Any idea what data sources are used exactly or how AS16 does get that thunderstorms from? By the way: I have opted out to get thunderstorms with CB occurance (AS16 options).

Thanks in advance,
Zacke

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