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Old April 29th 07, 06:01 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Radiative cooling & partly cloudy nights

On 29 Apr 2007 05:42:09 -0700, Tudor Hughes wrote:

What Paul is talking about is the possibility that the temp rises when
the clouds come over. If all that happens is cloud cover, with no
other effects present, then the mere presence of cloud cover cannot
cause the temperature to rise.


But it does. That is the whole point of this thread.


I thought the purpose of this thread was to confirm or deny that such
an effect occurs - and explain why.

There is nothing presented thus far which does either of those.


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