Cloud week: an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location

Cloud week: an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for fact of the day.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Day day day day. Do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do
do do do.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Do do.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's cloud work here. Effect of the day.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
She's going to go into my phone and find my
flagged messages, because everybody that sent me a photo of
a flag yesterday, a flag, a cloud, a cloud.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Got flagged. So let me find how do I do this?
Oh that's cool, I.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Don't have We've got time for your personal cloud shout
outs for this isn't the weather, send me the end
of the weather. This isn't his picture of a cloud,
but he sent me a Twitter post that he found.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
This cloud beautiful taken.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
This will be one for you. But this is where
you're going at the end of the year, the desert
in Chile.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh wow, the clouds.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Look at these, all of these bumpy, bumpy clouds. These
don't launched my holiday ahead of my is your official
holiday spoiler sound so that they look like lines.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Wow, it's like tubes of lions, lines, lines of clouds.
It's incredible. Yeah, I know, isn't that beautiful?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Somehow we could probably share that so over and listening
could see but I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
That's just imagine wheelhouse.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Boston sent me these pictures of clouds. I said, ship, Yeah, dude,
those are good clouds. It looks like a comm well
what it doesn't, but it looks like a comma. What
did you I would have said, spinning top, dirty girl.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Smack on the handy girl.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Dirty girls get smacks. See that's just made it even dirty.
It has I don't know what do you reckon? This
is there's like a central tangle, the central normal huge
piles going over the top there. But Boston, thank you
very much for your photo. Ship you dude, that is
hot play.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I am listening someone just texting about sex, dollar tacos
and wanaka. So I'm just.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Okay, get the info immediately, need the information.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, no, you keep going on cloud If you want to
see me photos of clouds. You can see me photos
of cool clouds. That it is on Instagram. It's cloudweight.
Here at FANCTOS, sure is that there is a word
for measuring how much cloud cover cloud per square something octors,
octors eights of the sky. Oh okay, so we're making

(02:40):
observations at are weather station. Cloud cover is measured and
octors eights of the sky.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
But the sky is infinite.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Well, no, you can't see all of it.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, but they don't know what I'm seeing.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
A weather station and elevated weather station, if they look
up their their measurements, they can measure by eights of
the sky.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
But my sky is going to be different. The weather
man wherever he's.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Looking at I know it will be But why.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
So what.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is he going to do an individual count? For each
person where they stand.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
They'll say the whatever weather station Octa was this, and
they'll just say it was a cloudy day.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
But that's of no use to me.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
So zero octors would mean there's not a single cloud
in the sky, which is termed inubulous.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh I love aubulus.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Inubulus so octors. It's like the Bristol stool chart. So
zero octors sky absolutely clear, of course, one, a few clouds, two,
a few more clouds, three scattered clouds. Also for four,
broken clouds, five and sax eight is overcast, entirely nine obscured,

(03:50):
and they're not measured as.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
The other option, which is just lazy.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
So you would say, today, looking at our sky, when doctors,
i'd say eight octors, I say eight as well.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, eight octors because I can see a skiric of blue,
and if it was blue scirri, it would be anubulus.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Scirc Yeah, just a lovely word that I don't think
i've ever heard before.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Scric small. Poor friends, it's Australian. Just a sciric private.
Please use basic words around us.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Sorry, I done seen the clouds.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
You think a little bit dear, Yeah, a little bit blue,
a little bit blue.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
So today's factor that I hear at cloud Week, And boy,
I'll tell you what people love on clouds better than
calendar we better than calendar calendar week, which was fascinating
and interesting. The worst is that the unit of measurement
given to describe the amount of cloud covered every given location,
such as the weather station, is an octa