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Examples
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I could spy some ragged patches of blue amongst the gunmetal gray clouds skidding across the sky, and in the time it took to write a sentence or two in my morning pages notebook, a burning orange ball was staring me in the face, a regular “full monty” of sun flashing through the overcoat of cloudcover.
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Those bright blue Mediterranean skies makes the heat seem less heavy, in a way, as opposed to yesterday's insufferable gray cloudcover which looked like smog.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004
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It was as if the eternal cloudcover had finally given way to the golden rays of the sun.
The Legend Of Huma Knaak, Richard A. 1988
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Several nights of storms kept birds grounded in the wetlands north of New York City; on the night of Sept. 11, a favorable tailwind released them, but dense cloudcover hid the stars birds use to navigate and calibrate inborn geomagnetic compasses.
Wired Top Stories Brandon Keim 2011
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More cloudcover, less sunlight, less infrared, temps fall, etc … highly simplistic yes, but the larger idea is certainly something to consider.
Infowars 2009
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Conversely, in the front range of Colorado, mass balance on the neoglacial ice bodies has supposedly been attributed to an increase in summer cloudcover, which itself has been attributed to anthropogenic aerosols (smog) from the nearby population areas.
RealClimate 2009
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Conversely, in the front range of Colorado, mass balance on the neoglacial ice bodies has supposedly been attributed to an increase in summer cloudcover, which itself has been attributed to anthropogenic aerosols (smog) from the nearby population areas.
RealClimate 2009
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More cloudcover, less sunlight, less infrared, temps fall, etc … highly simplistic yes, but the larger idea is certainly something to consider.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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The plane was on its approach to land amid low cloudcover when it crashed into an unpopulated area of the city, just a few hundred yards from residential buildings.
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The plane was on its approach to land amid low cloudcover when it crashed into an unpopulated area of the city, just a few hundred yards from residential buildings.
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