cloud ceiling
ceiling **

There was a 25,000-foot cloud ceiling, and no bright sun.

The cloud ceiling was probably below five thousand feet.

The shuttle broke through the cloud ceiling into only slightly less darkness.

The weather was poor - violent thunderstorm and low cloud ceiling.

It was almost dark, was misty and they were under a low cloud ceiling.

The cloud ceiling was as low as 200 feet.

The cloud ceiling was above twenty thousand feet and it was right down on the ground.

"Listen, Stoney, with this cloud ceiling you're never going to spot me down here."

He scanned the ominous gray cloud ceiling rolling in from the northwest.

There were to be light winds coming from the southwest and a solid cloud ceiling at 2500 meters.

"The cloud ceiling was zero and the fog was right at ground level.

Mostly cloudy skies, and low cloud ceilings are commonplace during the rainy season.

As the cloud ceiling did, indeed, over all Nehwon that night (and day on other side).

The cloud ceiling was breaking up as predicted.

No matter how far he stumbled back across the featureless plain, the tree still stretched beyond the cloud ceiling.

This often causes freezing fog on mountaintops, where the cloud ceiling would not otherwise be low enough.

In the morning the cloud ceiling was very low, but the afternoon brought clear spaces with no decrease in the violence of the wind.

When the moonlight finally began to seep through a rent in the cloud ceiling, not long before dawn, they stopped to make camp.

It lifted slowly into the cloud ceiling.

The weather on 29 February 1944 was overcast with a low cloud ceiling that prevented most of the planned air strike.

Over a large skylight in the high clouded ceiling, light falls into the Museum Hall.

The rescue had been hampered by weather, with a low cloud ceiling that made it difficult to dispatch helicopters to the mountain.

They droned out over the darkening sea, flying at about sixteen hundred feet, very close below the cloud ceiling.

The snarling engines of the drones fell behind, the cloud ceiling too thick for its detection systems.

Ballistic mode is used where the cloud ceiling is high and visibility is good.