You can Now Fly through Hurricane Ida with Microsoft Flight Simulator

Microsoft Flight Simulator is now a place you can see what’s going on as hurricane Ida ravages Lousiana’s coast this week.

Hurricane Ida was an active tropical storm and became the second-most intense hurricane to hit Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina.

[elfintman]

This game takes things to entirely different levels

[iplay1up2]

Racing WW2 planes DLC and Top Gun DLC are on the way! Free at that!

[fr0sty]

Technically, when looking at categories, Ida was the most intense hurricane to hit Louisiana in modern history. Katrina was only a Category 3 at landfall, with winds 35mph slower. The reason Katrina did more damage is because she hit Cat 5 in the gulf, with 160mph winds, a day before Ida did, and that sucked up a mound of water that washed right over the levees. When a hurricane weakens, it takes longer for the water to drop than it does for the wind, so Katrina made landfall with Cat 3 winds, but Cat 5 waves. Add to that the levee system had weaknesses in it that have since been addressed, so it now takes a stronger storm than Katrina to do the same amount of flooding that Katrina did.

[Sayai jin]

Severe tropical weather/storms less than 79 MPH are not hurricanes. They are instead categorized as a tropical storm. Katrina could not have been a category 3 with winds of 35 MPH or less. Tropical storms do not have a number quantifier. A category 3 hurricane would mean it was 111-130 MPH by your account. Hurricanes/tropical storms are categorized by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale in the US/North and South America.

[neutralgamer1992]

I am currently in Louisiana this hurricane did a lot more damage than Katrina people just don't realize that

[PrinceOfAnger]

breathtaking!

[iplay1up2]

That was yesterday. If you turn on live weather, the most you can do now, is fly through the remainder of storms Ida produced. It was cool flying through it yesterday, especially at low altitudes.

[medman]

Was there lightning?

[iplay1up2]

Yes, and thunder. Very cool.

[Tedakin]

I did it yesterday.

[z2g]

Amazing!

[whitbyfox]

One of the reasons why it’s game of the year.

[Vanfernal]

The game released last year...

[whitbyfox]

And it was game of the year on PC and now game of the year on Xbox.

[NeoGamer232]

@whitbyfox
I think Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite will have something to say about that.

[whitbyfox]

@NeoGamer Forza might have a slim chance but Halo hasn’t reached the 90’s on Meracritic since Bungie left.

[Traecy]

Nice.

[MrCrimson]

No turbulence?

[aaronaton]

I flew over Kabul Airport yesterday, and you could see tons of people waiting around and smoke everywhere. Such detail.

[Outlawzz]

Wow that's cool, never knew this about this game. Do you need a super high end PC to run it? I'm kind of curious to play now lol

[Fishy Fingers]

To run it "well" (or looking how you'd like it too) yeah, you can get away with some pretty low FPS but its still one of the more demanding PC titles.

[Outlawzz]

Well that's a shame. Maybe I'll play it someday lol