The height of on-set tension in the book is, quite literally, an overcast day of shooting in England.
After straight-set victories in the next two rounds, Azarenka could not make it past Cibulkova on a cool, overcast day that represented quite a change from the quick, sunny conditions that prevailed in the first seven days of this tournament.
But on this cool and overcast afternoon, Federer's best was quite a bit better, and his convincing 7-6 (3), 6-2, 6-2 victory earned him his first Australian Open title.
On an overcast day, it's hard to tell quite where it ends.
Thank goodness then for Pilou Asbaek's Euron Greyjoy who rocked up on a suitably dark and stormy night (and I do love how the weather conditions in Pyke are always wet, overcast and miserable, it makes me feel quite at home) to dispatch his older brother Balon to a watery grave while uttering gnomic phrases with appropriate menace.
Where I was, there was broken cloud, so that I could see the eclipse happening quite clearly either through gaps in the cloud, or, where it was overcast with the cloud, the cover was thin enough to be able to see what was happening quite clearly.
(Need one point out that this was not a compliment?) But on an overcast November afternoon at her home in Glasgow, the author herself would, quite frankly, rather talk about anything else than the book which has sold four million copies around the world.
The enticing result kept coming through in a faint shimmer, much like the sun on an overcast December afternoon in London: you sense it's there but you can't quite make out its outline.
"It's cold out, it's overcast, but I haven't seen a more glorious day in this area for quite a while," said Linda Rivera, loading her groceries outside the Shoppers Food Warehouse in Wheaton, where the sniper took his first victim.
Ireland however is much further north, so the temperatures there are considerably cooler, there is more rain, and the air is often quite damp; in Ireland this slug is sometimes active in the daytime as long as the weather is humid and overcast.
