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cloud cover

noun

  1. a covering of clouds over all or part of the sky.
  2. the fraction of sky covered by clouds.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cloud cover1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Overnight temperatures will vary depending on cloud cover but some pockets of frost are still likely, particularly in the northern half of the UK.

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Showers will move northwards into Scotland during the afternoon as cloud cover becomes more widespread.

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West Wales, along with central and south England, will have the best chance of the highest temperatures, but it will depend on cloud cover.

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Mr Duren says that the high-resolution Tanager-1 can respond to some of these challenges, for instance by essentially sneaking peeks through gaps in cloud cover or forest cover.

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But images from the EU's Sentinel radar satellites - which are low resolution but capable of penetrating cloud cover - revealed that the ships were in the military section of the port.

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