cloud cover

noun

: a mass of clouds
The moon was hidden behind a thick cloud cover.

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The northern lights appear through a little bit of cloud cover in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2025 The other factors that may have contributed extra warming range from changes in marine shipping fuels to El Niño and La Niña and shifts in maritime cloud cover. Andrew Freedman, Axios, 6 Mar. 2025 The choir leaned over him offering words of motivation, and rain doused the flames as Kirk Franklin marched up to a stage beating back smoke with an orange glow, like sunlight dissolving cloud cover. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025 For example, Salt Lake City is forecast to have 93% cloud cover during the eclipse, the weather service said. Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cloud cover

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“Cloud cover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cloud%20cover. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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