Definition of "cloud cover" []

• The percentage or fraction of the sky obscured by clouds. (noun)

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• "With the absence of the cloud cover that normally caused the sky over Seattle to resemble cottage cheese that had been dragged nine miles behind a cement truck, the city, for the first time in memory, would have an unobstructed view of one of nature's most mystical spectacles."
• "But as she looked up at the six mercury-vapor floodlights casting their artificial moonglow down onto the intersection — the only moonlight visible right now, what with the cloud cover — Halle knew that she and What's-His-Face would never be more than friends and perhaps occasional lovers."
• "Kahlan had thought they might have to find a safe place out in the grasslands to sleep and wait for daylight in order to find their way back, but they had been fortunate; a break in the cloud cover had allowed the stars to show them the way."