cloud cover
15
3.4
- noun
- /klaʊd ˈkʌvər/
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nubosidad
- The weather report indicated that the cloud cover would reach 80%, obscuring the sun for most of the day.
- temperature and average cloud cover
- increased cloud cover
- changes in cloud cover
The one pointing up will tell us what this cloud cover is.
- The one pointing up will tell us what this cloud cover is.
- And then getting sunlight even on through cloud cover in one's eyes early in the day and as much as is safely possible throughout the day.
- I thought no coleus is going to stand our summer sun with the amount of of a dry heat and wind and, you know, no cloud cover, no protection.
- So everything from the temperature to the cloud cover to the color of the oceans to see what phytoplankton is doing in the oceans.
- And when you inject the ink, it sits on that density layer and looks like cloud cover.
Examples
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Indeed, I looked forward to the next few days under the cloud cover.
Fiction book (1996) -
Here and there, the sun had punched holes in the high cloud cover.
Fiction book (2001) -
Depending on cloud cover, we may have to come in low enough to be in range of small arms, but this is a small risk.
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Dawn had come up, but the sun lay behind a thin cloud cover.
Fiction book (1992) -
We get from the NOA, wind speed, wind direction, basically cloud cover and various other weather condition reports.
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We have reports of light cloud cover over northern Germany and Berlin, so you can expect contact on your Inward track.
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There's complete cloud cover over Bremen.
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The increase in Trade Wind strength reduces cloud cover and thus warms the tropical Pacific.
Blog text (5) -
Due to the ever-present cloud cover, maps of this region are based only on approximations.
Academic text (2004) -
The percentage of cloud cover is similar to that of Cerro Tololo in Chile.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
3
2.5
A sky completely covered with clouds without direct sunlight
2
2.1
Sky covered with clouds so it is not bright
1
2.5
A sky completely covered with clouds that looks dim and gray
Antonyms
How Cloudy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'cloud' (clouds) with 'cover' (the thing or extent that covers), i.e. the degree to which clouds cover the sky. This noun-compound/nominalization pattern is compositional and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand the MWE.
Etymology
The term cloud cover comes from the simple picture of clouds acting like a blanket over the sky. Because cloud is the cloud and cover means to lie over something, cloud cover means 'how much of the sky is covered by clouds'.