On a more general note, I am glad I am not the only one having problems with recording cloud cover, even after 30 years experience. The skies are always more complicated than the examples you find in books and on the web. Here at least (and I assume there is little special about Dundee) most mornings there's a mixture of types of cloud at different levels. There are gaps of different sizes all over the place, and I find estimating the cover on that basis very difficult. I might decide 4/8, but it could well be ⅝.. Am I missing something basic?

And then the patterns is often fast changing, so it might be 4/8 at 9.00, but could easily be 6/8 at 8.50 and 9.10, so recording a simple snapshot doesn't fully capture the picture. I realise one has to make a cutoff at some point.

Of course this is all probably just a bit of noise in a set of records no one is ever going to use.


Trevor
Back from the Deep South of London and Devon where it was HOT to Dundee where it is COLD