Now that I look out of my office window the next question comes up: When are we going to experience snow in FlightGear ;-)) As far as I learned, rain and snow don't show up in METAR messages as a weather phenomenon, do they ?
Yes they do. There's a whole series of abbreviations for different weather phenomena, from snow to ice pellets to thunderstorms to sand storms, including information on type and intensity.
Before anyone runs out to implement this stuff, though, you have to consider how it looks in flight: even more than in a car on the highway, when you're flying, all precip (snow or rain) appears as continuous near-horizontal lines streaking past the plane. In the distance, precip appears as grey haze extending from a cloud to the ground (or, in the case of virga, disappearing before the ground).
All the best,
David
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