#Meteorology Q: On a day like this with extensive cirrus but lots of blue sky & bright sunshine, would this sky still be classed as 7 or 8 oktas cloud cover? Would a blue sky completely covered with a barely perceptible layer of cirrostratus be classed as 8 oktas?
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Replying to @wessexweather@mastodonapp.uk
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Ok so I had to pursue this, and I went to the actual WMO manual (link below). The documentation does not explicitly say to ignore transparent cloud, and it DOES say to count all cloud.
So from this I would conclude that you do count oktas of transparent clouds.
Relevant paragraphs: 15.1.4.1 and 15.2.2
Replying to @gueuledatmosphere@mastodon.green
@openvibe @gueuledatmosphere Thank you for this, thatโs very helpful.