Anyone who's ever read The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle will know that when the path between the sun and the Earth's blocked out, weather conditions go haywire, so do you dress for a nuclear winter, or an endless, volcanic summer?
This translates into supernaturally-persistent blocking patterns, where weather stalls for extended periods of time.
But poor weather conditions are currently blocking satellite images of Cleveland, McNutt said.
"I tried to block out the weather.
Snowy weather blocked most of the mountains as we drove, although looming white shapes occasionally pierced the flurries.
This tends to block more unsettled weather heading in off the Atlantic, leaving the UK fine, dry and fairly sunny.
Lasers can be blocked by bad weather and current designs for the devices used to generate and collect laser light are generally considered to be considerably less efficient than their microwave-based counterparts. .
When the filmmakers reached the animals, they found them huddled close together to block out the weather, rotating members from the outside in when they got too cold.
There are all sorts of things that get in the way of photography; the whole of the route had barriers down both sides of the road, lots of trees blocking the landmarks and the weather was grey and over cast when the race started.
Plant shade-producing trees near your home to help cool the house during hot weather and block some of the wind in cold weather.
