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As Jeff Masters, the web’s most widely read meteorologist, explains, “The U.S. and Canada are virtually snow-free and cloud-free, which is extremely rare for a January day.
Bill McKibben: The Great Carbon Bubble Bill McKibben 2012
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The temperature was in the the 70s and the sky was cloud-free, with a layer of haze hanging low in the atmosphere, visible only at the horizon.
Equinox sunrise video and photos Kevin Ambrose 2010
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I remember staying in the Sheraton Abuja watching their huge generator start up with all that thick, black smoke going up in the blue, cloud-free sky.
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Other scientists find positive feedback from water vapor in cloud-free regions enhancing the warming from extra CO2.
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The sun continued its journey across the cloud-free sky as I crossed the green flood plain of the Derwent where scattered flocks appeared as giant field mushrooms.
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The eastern U.S. is virtually cloud-free and will remain that way through Sunday.
Endless sunshine: Top five outdoor ideas Jason Samenow 2010
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I doubt one could find a January day this cloud-free with so little snow on the ground throughout the entire satellite record, going back to the early 1960s.”
Bill McKibben: The Great Carbon Bubble Bill McKibben 2012
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Because these satellites carry identical MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instruments and have highly coordinated orbits, they can provide cloud-free data about the whole Earth on a day-to-day basis.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Mapping the Forest and the Trees: A Visit With Remote Sensing Expert Alan Strahler Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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We'll offer three of the more commonly used and/or discussed estimates for the amount of cooling Earth would experience for a hypothetical zero-CO2, cloud-free atmosphere
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Tomorrow night: Skies should remain mostly clear, but I'm not very confident they will remain completely cloud-free the entire night.
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