Tens of thousands more congregated in "fan zones" around the British capital to watch the festivities on big screens, their enthusiasm hardly diminished by overcast sky and sporadic showers.

CNN: SHARE THIS

The overcast sky is stifling.

NEWYORKER: See the Other Side

Find this orientation by looking through the crystal at the sky at a time when you can see the sun, mark the sun's direction on the crystal, and your mark will always point towards the sun when you match the beams from even a tiny patch of blue in an otherwise overcast sky.

ECONOMIST: How Norsemen found their way round in cloudy weather

The architects painted the cables white, so that they would disappear into the sky on overcast days, and complement the blue of clear skies.

WSJ: A Concrete Ribbon Through the Clouds | Millau Viaduct | Masterpiece by Joseph Giovannini

Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs.

WSJ: Way Too Much God

Scientists at the University of Lund, Sweden, "found that dung beetles can transport their dung balls along straight paths under a starlit sky, but lose the ability under overcast conditions".

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