What is the temperature on a cloudy day?

Answer 1

Clouds are relatively close to the surface of the Earth and act like a blanket to trap the heat that the Earth has close to the surface. Without the clouds the heat rises and mixes with the very cold air of the atmosphere.

Answer 2

Clouds act like a blanket, blocking some incoming and outgoing heat. So a desert, which is usually cloudless, can be very hot during the day, but very cold at night, when all the heat escapes into space.

Answer 3

Because the clouds block the heat from the sun.

Answer 4

It actually depends on where the sun is when the earth orbits the sun. For example,

In London, the sun turns away from earth in winter.

Answer 5

cloudy days are warm because the clouds cover the sun and the sun cannot give us the feeling of hotnass.

from sheryl

Answer 6

if its really cloudy, then the clouds are probably covering the sun, making it dimmer and thus not as light as on a sunny day.

Answer 7

On cloudy days the weather is different because the clouds keep the sun from shining through fully. When the sun is not fully shining it will be cooler and sometimes may be muggy.

Answer 8

because of the greenhouse effect