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Weather Glitched - Merged thread

The Mods are merging all threads relating to this weather bug.

Volunteers have been testing and discussing this issue since yesterday and as far as we can tell the home page is displaying the live feed from OpenWeather but the Simulator weather is frozen and hasn't updated since some time yesterday.

To understand the current weather conditions that the sim is using, our best advice is to either:

1. Run a practice lap and make a note of the weather conditions displayed immediately after the lap is completed or


2. Spectate a race at the same circuit as the one you're next racing at.

Apologies for the inconvenience, as and when we have more information we will advise. 

Currently iGP Management are unavailable. One is unwell and the other travelling over the Easter period. 

For the races, the weather conditions at all circuits are fixed at a value on Thursday when the glitch occurred. I appreciate it's not ideal, but until the race sim can be reconnected to the live weather feed (and I can't give timescales for this) we're just going to have to live with it.

On a positive note, at least we know what weather conditions and temperature we're going to experience in the race and can set up accordingly.

If I can find time today I will list the conditions at all 24 circuits which will be some help.

Again, really sorry to everyone for the inconvenience but the bug has appeared at absolutely the worst time when it comes to iGP staff availability.

Current race conditions:

• Abu Dhabi - Dry, Sunny, 28 Celsius


• Australia - Dry, Sunny, 16 Celsius


• Austria - Dry, partly cloudy, 9 Celsius


• Azerbaijan - Dry, Sunny, 15 Celsius


• Belgium - Dry, Cloudy, 8 Celsius


• Bahrain - Dry, Sunny, 26 Celsius


• Brazil - Dry, Cloudy, 19 Celsius


• Canada - Dry, Cloudy, 7 Celsius


• China - Dry, Cloudy, 15 Celsius


• Europe - Dry, Sunny, 18 Celsius


• France - Dry, Cloudy, 14 Celsius


• Germany - Dry, Cloudy, 9 Celsius


• Great Britain - Dry, Cloudy, 8 Celsius


• Hungary - Dry, Sunny, 16 Celsius


• Italy - (Light?) Rain, 1.6mm, 8 Celsius


• Japan - Rain, 3.7mm Water, 13 Celsius


• Malaysia - Dry, Sunny, 33 Celsius


• Mexico - Dry, Sunny, 12 Celsius


• Monaco - Dry, Cloudy, 14 Celsius


• Singapore - Dry, cloudy, 31 Celsius


• Russia - Dry, Sunny, 17 Celsius


• Spain - Dry, Sunny, 18 Celsius


• Turkey - Dry, partly cloudy, 25 Celsius


• United States - Dry, Sunny, 8 Celsius

Important Note:
When setting up Wing and Ride Height the driver will ask for the correct settings for the live conditions.
For example, if you're setting up for Japan and it is dry when you're running practice laps the driver will ask for dry settings. But you already know that Japan is going to be wet with 3.7mm of water on the track. So it would make sense to adjust wing and ride height settings for rain and expect to run the race on Full Wet tyres.
Do Not buy Ideal setup if live conditions differ from the list posted above
Also a good idea not to claim day 7 daily reward

To be honest, I'm not sure. I know the Japan race will be wet and gut feeling says if a wet setup is loaded into the race sim, then that should give better race pace.

You already know practice lap data gives variable lap times even when design, setup and tyre compound are fixed. So maybe it is this natural variation that is confusing the issue and suggesting to you that wet setup is slower.

But like I said up front, the honest answer is I don't know for sure. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can advise.