A bank of clouds of a particular type forming a layer at a certain altitude.
Example sentencesExamples
We were somewhere over Oklahoma and the cloud deck was descending with the sky getting noticeably darker.
We stayed below the cloud deck to keep the horizon in view, but with night rapidly approaching, we knew we had to recover soon, or we'd be in big trouble.
A low cloud deck blanketed the city, bringing with it the dreary weather that was normal for this time of year.
The cloud deck was very low with a lot of ground fog that morning and the fog was just starting to break up.
So this morning we thought there might be a cloud deck of about 500 feet, and that would have obscured the runway.
Definition of cloud deck in US English:
cloud deck
noun
Meteorology
A bank of clouds of a particular type forming a layer at a certain altitude.
Example sentencesExamples
So this morning we thought there might be a cloud deck of about 500 feet, and that would have obscured the runway.
A low cloud deck blanketed the city, bringing with it the dreary weather that was normal for this time of year.
We were somewhere over Oklahoma and the cloud deck was descending with the sky getting noticeably darker.
The cloud deck was very low with a lot of ground fog that morning and the fog was just starting to break up.
We stayed below the cloud deck to keep the horizon in view, but with night rapidly approaching, we knew we had to recover soon, or we'd be in big trouble.