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overcast
- Definição1
- The cloud layer that covers most or all of the sky.
- Fonte1
- AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. Glossary of meteorology. [S.l., última modificação 05 oct. 2015]. Disponível em: < http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Main_Page >. Acesso em: 21 set. 2021.
- Definição2
- An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, when the sky is completely covered by an obscuring phenomenon. This is applied only when obscuring phenomenon aloft are present--that is, not when obscuring phenomenon are surface-based, such as fog.
- Fonte2
- UNITED STATES. National Weather Service. National weather service glossary. [20-?]. In: ______. [Homepage]. [Silver Spring, MD, 20-?]. Disponível em: < https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php >. Acesso em: 21 set. 2021.
- Definição3
- Sky with a cloud cover of 8 oktas
- Fonte3
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Annex 3 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation. Meteorological Service for International Air Navigation: parts I and II. 19th ed. Montreal, 2016.
- Nota adicional1
- Acronym in English: OVC.
- Nota adicional2
- It generally suggests a widespread layer of clouds such as that considered typical of a warm front.
- Contexto
- The location of the CB and/or TCU should be specified in addition to any widespread areas of broken or overcast cloud.
- Subárea1
- Aeronautical Meteorology
- Related Term
- cloudy
- Português
- encoberto