Weather Radar

General

Our weather radar handling was implemented quite some time ago, it was first implemented using WhazzUp.

the weather generated within FS has nothing to do with WhazzUp, the weather radar in the ND and what is displayed. If there is major downpour that you set FS sitting in Port-Au-Prince and in real world the skies are blue, you won't see anything in the ND.
the main FS folder has to be shared for read and write access

it needs an internet connection to download the weather data
you can run it minimized if you feel it is taking performance away from your computer (it is confirmed that the nVidia 40.XX beta drivers cause problems with OpenGL on the FS computer)
you can add the line AskConnect=On to the WhazzUp.INI file, then a message box will come up in WhazzUp, asking you whether you want to connect and you say "no" - then it will not connect to VATSIM or IVAO
it doesn't generate winds, rain etc. for that you still need specialized programs or the FS weather download option, for the time being
the NetDir can be empty for the time being
if the WXR is enabled in the Glass Cockpit, then WhazzUp should be downloading weather data every 10 minutes or every time the FS reports a position which is more than 500 NM away from the last download
WhazzUp needs to be connected to FS in order to inform the Glass Cockpit that it has downloaded data... for that it has to be either on the FS computer or on a WideClient Computer and you should see a magenta symbol for the positons of FS in the world map

pmGetWeather replaces WhazzUp for the weather bitmap generation
it is easy to use, you essentially run it on any computer in the network which has internet access

if there is no "weather" in the area you are in, then nothing will be displayed in the ND
if the WXR text in the ND is barely readable (i.e. grey), that means that either no weather file has been found or that it isn't valid for the area, i.e. the communication to WhazzUp isn't working
What you see is a processed infrared sat image, i.e. the lighter the colour, the cooler the weather system is. Grey would be your run of the mill overcast, blue slightly cooler systems at lower altitudes going all the way to red which would be tall and very cold clouds, possibly thunderstorms.