On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Gijs de Rooy wrote:
> That sounds like it was caused by the bug I fixed today. Snow should not
> dissapear (except when you fly over some terrain with lower elevation of
> course). The snow level can only get lowered due to a METAR station
> reporting snow at a lower elevation. The system never increases the altitude
> of the snow line. The snow line does not change if a METAR station reports
> no snow (actually "if there is no report of snow"). It simply stays where it
> was.

Thanks for the clarification.  It seems likely that the behaviour I was seeing
was due to the bugger property rules.

> You are right that the behaviour I describe here was not seen up to today.
> The snow line was really buggy before I commited today's fix, so please try
> it again. I think you've got a needlessly bad impression of the system.

That seems very likely.

Unfortunately it's a bit tricky to test, being summer in Scotland right now :)

I'll test when we get some snow!

-Stuart

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